CEDAR email: New SCOSTEP officers and Fall AGU sessions (abstracts due Aug 4)

Wed Jul 20 17:48:01 MDT 2011

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(1) New SCOSTEP Executive Officers
 From Marianna Shepherd <mshepher at yorku.ca>.

(2) 5-9 December 2011, Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, CA - abstracts due 
on-line 4 August.
See also http://www.agu.org/meetings/
*(a) SA02: Advances in Geospace Research from Antarctica.
From: Irfan Azeem <iazeem at astraspace.net>.
*(b) SA05: Drivers of the Equatorial Ionospheric Climatology, Variability, and 
Irregularities
From: Fabiano Rodrigues <frodrigues at astraspace.net>.
*(c) SA08: Recent Progress in Measuring and Modeling Thermospheric Neutral Winds
From: Jonathan Makela <jmakela at illinois.edu>
*(d) GC42: Climate Change and the Sun 1. Quantifying the Solar-Terrestrial
System Contribution to Global Change
From: Howard Singer <Howard.Singer at noaa.gov>
*(e) GC44: Climate Change and the Sun 3. Solar Spectral Irradiance Variability: 
Observations and Implications
From: Marty Snow <Marty.Snow at lasp.colorado.edu>

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(1) New SCOSTEP Executive Officers
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 From Marianna Shepherd <mshepher at yorku.ca>.

At its meeting on July 3, 2011 in Melbourne, Australia the General Council of 
the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics (SCOSTEP) held an election 
for new SCOSTEP Executive Officers, President and Vice-President.

It is my pleasure to inform you that the new SCOSTEP President is Dr. 
Natchimuthuk (Nat) Gopalswamy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System 
Exploration Division (USA) (gopals at ssedmail.gsfc.nasa.gov). The new SCOSTEP 
Vice-President is Prof. Franz-Josef Lübken, Director, Leibniz Institute of 
Atmospheric Physics (Germany) (luebken at iap-kborn.de).

Sincerely,
Marianna Shepherd,
Scientific Secretary, SCOSTEP

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(2) 5-9 December 2011, Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, CA - abstracts due 
on-line 4 August.
See also http://www.agu.org/meetings/
*(a) SA02: Advances in Geospace Research from Antarctica.
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From: Irfan Azeem <iazeem at astraspace.net>.

Dear Colleagues,

We encourage you to submit an abstract to the 2011 Fall AGU Meeting session 
SA02: Advances in Geospace Research from Antarctica. A brief description of our 
session is below.

Antarctica provides a unique natural laboratory for a variety of research 
dedicated to studying the Earth’s atmosphere, its space environment, and 
solar-terrestrial interactions with an overarching goal to improve our 
understanding of the mechanisms which couple solar processes to the polar 
geospace environment. These include investigations of auroras, induced 
electrical currents, space weather, geomagnetic fields, ionosphere, temperature 
and winds in the neutral atmosphere, and atmospheric waves. This session 
solicits papers on recent advances in space physics and aeronomy focusing on the 
Antarctic region. Inter-hemispheric and conjugacy studies as well as studies 
incorporating Antarctic observations in the global context are also welcome.

The dates of the meeting are 5-9 December. Abstract submission is now open, and 
it closes on 4 August. Please see http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/ for more 
details. If you have any questions, please contact the conveners below.

Best Regards,

Irfan Azeem,
ASTRA LLC,
iazeem at astraspace.net

Allan Weatherwax,
Siena College,
aweatherwax.edu

Mike Taylor,
Utah State University,
mike.taylor at usu.edu

Yusuke Ebihara,
RISH, Kyoto University,
ebihara at rish.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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(2) 5-9 December 2011, Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, CA - abstracts due 
on-line 4 August.
See also http://www.agu.org/meetings/
*(b) SA05: Drivers of the Equatorial Ionospheric Climatology, Variability, and 
Irregularities
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From: Fabiano Rodrigues <frodrigues at astraspace.net>.

Description: Satellite and ground-based observations have revealed that the 
equatorial ionosphere responds differently at different longitude sectors to 
influences from the neutral atmosphere and from high latitudes. This session 
aims to understand the cause and effect relationships between the ionosphere, 
atmosphere and magnetosphere through data analysis and modeling. We welcome 
papers that shed light on the physical processes relevant to understanding 
equatorial electrodynamics and coupling processes in these different regions, 
and that improve our ability to unravel the variability of the equatorial 
ionosphere with longitude, season, and magnetic activity, and to forecast 
ionospheric scintillation and ambient density

Convener(s):

1. Odile de la Beaujardiere,
Air Force Research Laboratory,
odile.delabeaujardiere at us.af.mil

2. Endawoke Yizengaw,
Boston Cllg-Scientific Research,
kassie at bc.edu

3. Hyosub Kil,
Johns Hopkins University,
hyosub.kil at jhuapl.edu

4. Fabiano Rodrigues,
ASTRA,
frodrigues at astraspace.net

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(2) 5-9 December 2011, Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, CA - abstracts due 
on-line 4 August.
See also http://www.agu.org/meetings/
*(c) SA08: Recent Progress in Measuring and Modeling Thermospheric Neutral Winds
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From: Jonathan Makela <jmakela at illinois.edu>

We are now accepting abstract submissions to session SA08, "Recent Progress in 
Measuring and Modeling Thermospheric Neutral Winds", a description of which is 
below.  Abstracts are due by Aug 4, 2011 and can be submitted via 
http://agu-fm11.abstractcentral.com/  Please contact one of the session 
conveners with any questions.

Regards,

Jonathan Makela (jmakela at illinois.edu)

Andrew Gerrard (gerrard at njit.edu)

John Meriwether (john.meriwether at ces.clemson.edu)

SA08: Recent Progress in Measuring and Modeling Thermospheric Neutral Winds

The neutral winds are crucial to the dynamics of both the thermosphere and 
ionosphere. Fully understanding tides and gravity wave contributions in the 
thermosphere are especially important. Several new ground- and satellite-based 
experiments have been implemented or proposed to address the lack of 
measurements of thermospheric neutral winds. Advanced models are making progress 
in simulating both the climatology and daily trend of this important parameter. 
This session solicits contributions describing both experimental and modeling 
results of thermospheric neutral winds and their effects. Papers describing data 
analysis techniques and data-model comparisons are also welcome.

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(2) 5-9 December 2011, Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, CA - abstracts due 
on-line 4 August.
See also http://www.agu.org/meetings/
*(d) GC42: Climate Change and the Sun 1. Quantifying the Solar-Terrestrial
System Contribution to Global Change
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From: Howard Singer <Howard.Singer at noaa.gov>

We would like to encourage participation in a Special Session
in AGU's Global Environmental Change section co-sponsored by
Atmospheric Sciences (A), Hydrology (H), and SPA-Solar and
Heliospheric Physics (SH).

Additional information can be found at the AGU website: http://www.agu.org/meetings/

Abstract: The contribution of solar-terrestrial (ST) system variability to
Earth¹s Global Change has generated much discussion in large part because
it is difficult to assess and it crosses research disciplines.
Investigations to quantify the magnitude and time scales of the ST
variability influence on the Earth System will help elucidate mechanisms
linked with Global Change and further understanding of the nature of our
home in space. This multi-disciplinary session solicits papers addressing
the magnitude and time-scale contributions of the ST system to Global
Change in the context of its other known sources. Observation, model, and
theory results that compare and quantify ST influences on specific time
scales are encouraged.

Co-Chairs:
Jack A. Kaye,
Barbara L. Giles,
Howard J. Singer,
Peter Pilewskie,
James F. Spann

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(2) 5-9 December 2011, Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, CA - abstracts due 
on-line 4 August.
*(e) GC44: Climate Change and the Sun 3. Solar Spectral Irradiance Variability: 
Observations and Implications
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From: Marty Snow <Marty.Snow at lasp.colorado.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to GC44: Solar Spectral Irradiance 
Variability: Observations and Implications for the Fall AGU meeting.  Invited 
authors are Gerard Thuillier, Caspar Ammann, Jan Sojka, and Aimee Merkel.  The 
full session description is included below.  Don’t forget that abstracts are due 
by August 4th this year!

Conveners: Marty Snow, Erik Richard, Frank Eparvier, and Rodney Viereck

Continuous observations of the spectrally-resolved solar irradiance now extend 
over more than half a solar cycle in the visible and infrared and up to three 
solar cycles at shorter wavelengths.  The amplitude and phase of solar spectral 
irradiance variability as a function of wavelength can have significant impact 
on the atmosphere in both the long-term (climate) and short-term (space weather).

Observations of the atmosphere, such as ozone measurements, can play a key role 
in helping us to understand the Sun-Earth system.  Solar spectral irradiance 
measurements from current missions such as the Solar Dynamics Observatory, SOLar 
Radiation and Climate Experiment, SOL-ACES, SOLSPEC, etc. are particularly 
relevant to this session.

Long-term variability records are by nature a composite of measurements from a 
series of instruments, and the uncertainties in the data must be well understood 
in order to make meaningful comparisons from one solar cycle to the next.

We solicit papers on both the measurement of solar spectral irradiance on all 
timescales and on atmospheric measurements or models that show the Sun's influence.

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