Session 3 |
| Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere |
| Chair: Geoff Crowley, Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates, San Antonio, TX
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| 4:00 PM | 3.1 | Investigating Energy and Momentum Coupling in Earth's Atmosphere and Ionosphere with the Neutral-Ion Coupling Explorer: NICE ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Thomas J. Immel, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. B. Mende, H. U. Frey, R. A. Heelis, G. R. Swenson, G. Crowley, S. L. England, J. M. Forbes, J. D. Huba, F. Kamalabadi, P. M. Kintner, J. J. Makela, and A. Stephan |
| 4:15 PM | 3.2 | Effect of waves from the lower atmosphere on the thermosphere and ionosphere ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Robert W. Schunk, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. C. Gardner, L. Scherliess, D. C. Thompson, and J. J. Sojka |
| 4:30 PM | 3.3 | Coupling of meteorological disturbances up to the mesosphere and lower thermosphere D. E. Siskind, NRL, Washington, DC; and S. Eckermann, L. Coy, and J. P. McCormack |
| 4:45 PM | 3.4 | Observations and model simulations of the thermospheric density daily variations ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Wenbin Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO ; and J. Lei, A. Burns, H. Liu, Q. Wu, S. Solomon, T. Killeen, and I. Azeem |
| 5:00 PM | 3.5 | Thermosphere and Ionosphere Variability due to Quasi-Two-Day Wave ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Han-Li Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wang and A. D. Richmond |
| 5:15 PM | 3.6 | Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere as simulated by the Whole Atmosphere Model (WAM) ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Rashid A. Akmaev, NOAA / SWPC, Boulder, CO; and T. J. Fuller-Rowell, F. Wu, H. Wang, H. M. H. Juang, S. Moorthi, Y. T. Hou, and M. D. Iredell |