<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-ecba1036-7fff-d915-b354-6e3fa271478f"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 5pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear CEDAR community:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 5pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are cordially inviting you to present in the session "</span><a href="http://cedarweb.vsp.ucar.edu/wiki/index.php/2021_Workshop:IT_asymmetries" title="2021 Workshop:IT asymmetries" style="background-image:none;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,43,184)">Interhemispheric IT asymmetries and their causes and effects</a>"  which will take place at the <a href="https://cpaess.ucar.edu/2021-cedar-workshop">CEDAR workshop</a> on <span style="background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000" style="">Thursday 6/24 from 10-12 PM Mountain Time</font></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,102,187);font-weight:700;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 5pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">In this</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap"> works</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">hop we aim to bring together researchers focusing on the magnetosphere-ionosphere (MI) coupling, ionosphere-thermosphere (IT) system, and mesosphere-lower thermosphere (MLT) dynamics to discuss the questions, challenges, and causes of interhemispheric difference effects in the IT system. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop invites presentations based on observations and/or modeling about </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:4pt;margin-bottom:5pt"></p><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Characterize interhemispheric differences in the IT  & MLT system during quiescent and disturbed conditions.
</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="background-color:transparent">Interhemispheric differences in magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling and mesosphere-lower thermosphere dynamics and their IT effects.</span></span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Studies considering the lower atmospheric forcing and the MI coupling and their relative importance for IT effect for quiescent and disturbed conditions.</span></li></ul><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">a</span></font></font>nd related topics. Please consider contributing by sending a title and a 1-2 sentence "abstract" to Astrid Maute (maute at <a href="http://ucar.edu">ucar.edu</a>) before 15 June, 2021.<br>Thanks a lot and see you at CEDAR 2021!<font face="arial, sans-serif"><div><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">
Astrid Maute, Hyomin Kim, Yun-Ju Chen, Katrina Bossert</font></pre></div><p></p></font></span></div>