Session 4 | 
|   | Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere | 
|   | Chair: Richard Behnke, NSF, Arlington, VA 
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 | 8:30 AM | 4.1 | Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere in Whole Atmosphere Model (WAM) simulations    Rashid A. Akmaev, NOAA/Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO; and F. Wu, T. J. Fuller-Rowell, and J. W. Meriwether | 
 | 8:45 AM | 4.2 | Eliassen-Palm Fluxes of the Diurnal Tides from the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model-Extended (WACCM-X)     McArthur Jones Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and H. L. Liu and A. D. Richmond | 
 | 9:00 AM | 4.3 | Modeling the effects of tropospheric tides on the ionosphere    Sarah E. McDonald, NRL, Washington, DC; and J. D. Huba, M. E. Hagan, A. Maute, and S. Basu | 
 | 9:15 AM | 4.4 | Lightning-related transient luminous events at high altitude in the Earth's atmosphere    Victor P. Pasko, Penn State University, University Park, PA | 
 | 9:30 AM | 4.5 | The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere Mission: Science results after five PMC seasons    James M. Russell III, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and S. M. Bailey, M. E. Hervig, C. E. Randall, L. L. Gordley, M. Taylor, D. E. Siskind, M. Summers, M. H. Stevens, G. E. Thomas, D. Rusch, and B. Karlsson |