<div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:#0b5394"><div class="gmail_default">Hello All,</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;box-sizing:inherit;line-height:normal"><font face="Open Sans, sans-serif" style="box-sizing:inherit">I would like to highlight an upcoming AGU session on <span>extreme</span> <span>space</span> <span>weather</span> effects on the ionosphere. Please consider submitting an abstract to this session, whether you are a modeler or an observationalist or an experimentalist. Please refer to the title and a short description attached below.</font></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(38,38,38);border-left-color:initial;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif">Session Title:</div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0.3em 0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/prelim.cgi/Session/159526" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">SA012. <span>Ionospheric</span> <span>Disturbances</span> <span>during</span> <span>Extreme</span> <span>Space</span> <span>Weather</span> <span>Conditions</span></a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0.3em 0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><br></p></div><div class="gmail_default"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(38,38,38);border-left-color:initial;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:14px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif">Session Description:</div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0.3em 0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><span>Ionospheric</span> <span>disturbances</span> associated with <span>extreme</span> <span>space</span> <span>weather</span> form in response to phenomena on the Sun such as solar flares, energetic proton events, and coronal mass ejections. Examples of <span>disturbances</span> in the ionosphere include short wave fadeout, polar cap absorption, irregularity formation, intense <span>ionospheric</span> currents, and Interplanetary Shock driven Storm Sudden Commencements. The <span>ionospheric</span> response to <span>extreme</span> <span>space</span> <span>weather</span> <span>conditions</span> can severely disrupt critical infrastructure such as HF and <span>space</span>-based communications, can affect Over-the-Horizon Radar performance and can degrade GNSS accuracy and availability.  This session invites papers that describe recent progress and our current understanding of the physical mechanisms governing <span>ionospheric</span> <span>disturbances</span> and their sources from the Sun to the ground, as well as the resulting impact on technology. Submissions focusing on observations, theory, modeling and prediction are welcome.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0.3em 0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0.3em 0px;font-size:14px;color:rgb(38,38,38);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif">Abstracts are due 3rd August 2022. AGU 2022 will be held in Chicago over December 12 - 16, 2022. We look forward to seeing (hopefully in-person) you all at AGU2022!</p></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#0000ff" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Best Regards!</font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Shibaji<br></font><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">=========================================</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Shibaji Chakraborty, PhD</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Postdoctoral Associate, SuperDARN Group</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Center for Space Science and Engineering Research<br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<br></font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Virginia Tech</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Blacksburg, VA 24060</font></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#0b5394">Website: <a hr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