CEDAR email: Announcement: CALL FOR PAPERS in JASTP Special Issue on: “Atmospheric Coupling Processes in the Sun-Earth System”

[Duggirala Pallamraju]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to bring to your attention the announcement for Call
for papers for the JASTP Special Issue on "Atmospheric Coupling Processes
in the Sun-Earth System".  Those of you considering submitting an article
may please send an email with a possible title to any of the Guest
editors, which will help us organize this Special Issue better.  Thank
you.

Best regards,
-- D. Pallamraju

The details are given below:
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CALL FOR PAPERS in JASTP Special Issue on: “Atmospheric Coupling Processes
in the Sun-Earth System”

Editors: Duggirala Pallamraju (raju at prl.res.in), Charles Lin
(clin at pssc.ncku.edu.tw), and Gang Lu (ganglu at ucar.edu)

The deadline for submission of papers is: 10 December 2010.


The Earth’s atmospheric regions are intricately coupled to one another via
dynamical, chemical, and electrodynamical processes in addition to the
processes that exist due to the solar & interplanetary effects.  The
coupling and the energy exchange in the Sun-Earth system can be
characterized into short-scales (hours to days, e.g., the time scale of
space weather), medium-scales (seasonal, annual, etc.), and long-scales
(solar cycle).  Several new observations in the recent past have revealed
a close connection between the dynamical processes in the lower atmosphere
with that of the temporal and spatial variability in the thermosphere and
the ionosphere, such as the existence of diurnal eastward modes 3 or 4 in
the plasma densities being closely associated with the convective
structures in the low-altitude atmosphere, stratospheric sudden warming
events in high-latitudes showing enhanced features in neutral and ionized
parameters in the upper atmosphere at low latitudes, and propagation of
waves from high- to low-latitudes, especially during space weather events.

We solicit papers for publication in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar
Terrestrial Physics (JASTP) Special Issue on “Atmospheric Coupling
Processes in the Sun-Earth System” that specifically deal with the
coupling processes or coupled interactions in the Sun-Earth system.  That
is, those works that highlight how the variability in one latitude
/altitude/ region is coupled with the variability in other
location(s)/region(s).  These include coupling processes in the
lower-upper atmosphere, magnetosphere-ionosphere, high-to-low latitude,
Solar-wind / interplanetary medium to the magnetosphere, in addition to
neutral – plasma coupling processes.  Realizing the importance of these
coupling processes global scale observational campaigns have been carried
out under the auspices of major international programs such as, the
Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES) and the International
Heliophysical Year (IHY), and several new insights are emerging from these
experiments as well.  We welcome papers that deal with experiments,
observations, modeling, and data analysis that advance our understanding
of the coupling processes within the domain of the Sun-Earth system.  All
manuscripts will undergo peer review process as per the guidelines set by
JASTP.  Accepted papers will be published online in a timely fashion
without having to wait for the readiness of other papers submitted to this
Special Issue.  Those of you considering submitting an article may send an
email with probable title to any of the editors as soon as possible.  That
will help us organize this Special Issue better.

Instructions for submission: 1) Go to the JASTP website
(http://ees.elsevier.com/atp). 2) Login as author and click on "Submit New
Manuscript" tab. 3) Under “Choose Article Type” button, select "SPECIAL
ISSUE: Atmospheric Coupling" and then upload your paper to be considered
for inclusion in this special issue.

The deadline for submission of papers is: 10 December 2010.

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-- 
Dr. D. Pallamraju,
Associate Professor, Space and Atmospheric Sciences Division,
Physical Research Laboratory,
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009, INDIA
Email: raju at prl.res.in; URL: http://www.prl.res.in/~raju/
Phone: +91-79-26314658; Fax: +91-79-26314659