Brief Description

The Earth’s atmospheric regions are intricately coupled to one another via various dynamical, chemical, and electrodynamic processes. However, the manner in which the couplings take place due to varying energy inputs from the Sun and from the lower atmosphere is a question that is yet to be understood. The coupled effects can be in terms of the modulation of the waves from lower to upper atmosphere as well as from low-to high-altitudes, electrodynamic and compositional changes, and plasma irregularities at different latitudinal regions of the globe due to the varying energy inputs. The MLT region is a critical region in the coupling between the lower/middle atmosphere and the upper atmosphere/ionosphere since it is here that physical processes filter and shape the flux of waves ascending through the mesosphere into the overlying thermosphere. On the other hand it is reasonable to presume that there might be a link between solar variability and the changes in the middle atmosphere and climate variables. This requires much improved knowledge and understanding of the solar effects on the coupling processes. This workshop solicits papers dealing with experiments, observations, modelling, and data analysis that describe the effects of atmospheric coupling processes within the atmosphere-ionosphere system. Recent results from the campaigns of CAWSES-II program are particularly welcome. It will address both theoretical and empirical recent results concerning the coupling mechanisms through dynamics, composition and electrodynamics. The workshop will be particularly focused on the dependence of coupling processes on the solar and geomagnetic activity, the downward control effects transferring from the strongly solar dependent structure to the lower atmospheric levels.

The 4^thIAGA/ICMA/CAWSES-II TG4 Workshop on Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System will be held from Feb 14-Feb 18, 2011 in Prague in Hotel Globus It is as well possible to book a room in this Hotel for a reduced price.

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Important deadlines

• Application for support: September 30, 2010
• Early registration Fee: October 31, 2010
• Abstract Submission: December 5, 2010

Program Committee:

• Petra Koucká Knížová (chair) -IAP, Prague, Czech Republic
• Daniel Marsh - ACD/NCAR, USA
• Dora Pancheva - Geophysical Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria
• Art Richmond - HAO, NCAR. Boulder, USA
• Werner Singer - Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany
• Kazuo Shiokawa - STEL, Nagoya University, Japan
• Hisao Takahashi - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brasil
• Robert Vincent - University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

Local Organizing Committee:
Petra Koucká Knížová (chair), Jan Laštovička, Tereza Šindelářová, Dan Kouba, Zbyšek Mošna - IAP, Prague, Czech Republic

Young Scientist Award
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List of Solicited Talks

• Christina Arras - Characteristics of sporadic E layers derived from global GPS radio occultation measurements
• Erich Becker - Some examples for modulations of the wave driving in the summer MLT
• Mark Clilverd - Geomagnetic Activity and Polar Surface Air Temperature Variability - A Tropospheric Interconnection with the Middle and Upper Atmosphere
• Scott England - Possible Mechanisms for Coupling Non-Migrating Tides to the Ionosphere
• Dave Fritts - Quasi-linear and nonlinear dynamics of gravity waves in the thermosphere and potential plasma responses
• Gurubaran - Tidal and planetary wave coupling of low latitude atmosphere-ionosphere system: Longitudinal variabilities
• Cheryl Huang - Longitudinal variability of the ionospheric irregularities and plasma bubble occurences
• Daniel Kouba – Recent advances in the digisond drift measurement
• John Meriwether - Measuring thermospheric dynamics with a network of Fabry-Perot interferometers
• Nick Mitchell - The propagation of planetary waves in the stratosphere and mesosphere from AURA MLS observations - the 2-, 5- and 16-day waves
• Yasunobu Miyoshi - Effects of the atmospheric waves on variations in the upper atmsopehre using an atmosphere-ionsophere coupled model
• Sonori Nozawa - High latitude lower thermosheric wind dynamics using EISCAT and MF radars and a new sodium LIDAR
• Dora Pancheva – Global ionospheric response to nonmigrating tides forced from below
• Michael Rycroft - AC/DC global circuit phenomena in relation to atmosphere-space coupling
• Mike Taylor – Spectral and spatial signatures of upper atmospheric lightning phenomena using imaging instrumentation.
• - Gravity wave activity in the MLT region and possible propagation into the ionosphere
• Yukihiro Takahashi - Effects of lightning activity on atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere
• William Ward - Tidal influences in the MLT region
• Qian Wu - Modeling and Observation of Mesospheric Tide Effect on the Thermosphere
• Erdal Yigit - Coupling of the lower to the upper atmosphere via small-scale gravity waves

Contact: workshop_2011 at ufa.cas.cz, Department of Aeronomy, Institute of Atmospheric Physics.

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