SA32B:
Neutral Dynamics: Significance to the Aeronomy and Challenge for Measurements and Simulations II

Session ID#: 2860

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Jonathan J Makela, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States and Yue Deng, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
Primary Convener:  Yue Deng, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States and Jonathan J Makela, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AE - Atmospheric and Space Electricity
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
  • SM - SPA-Magnetospheric Physics
Index Terms:

2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions [IONOSPHERE]
2437 Ionospheric dynamics [IONOSPHERE]
3369 Thermospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
7954 Magnetic storms [SPACE WEATHER]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SA32B-01
How Uncertainties in the Neutral Wind Affect Ionospheric Modeling (18204)
Michael David1, Jan Josef Sojka2 and Robert Walter Schunk1, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Utah State University, Physics, Logan, UT, United States
SA32B-02
Tracing Trajectories of Air Parcels Transported through Spatially Resolved Horizontal Neutral Wind Fields Observed in the Thermosphere above Alaska (16303)
Manbharat Singh Dhadly, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Space Physics, Fairbanks, United States and Mark Conde, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Space Physics, Fairbanks, AK, United States
SA32B-03
Measuring Thermospheric Winds and Temperatures Near the Equator: Evidence for the Development of an Inertial Instability? (Invited) (3481)
John W Meriwether1, Miguel Folkmar Larsen2, Sam Sanders3, Jonathan J Makela4, Daniel James Fisher5, Brian J Harding6, Luis Navarro7 and Marco A Milla7,8, (1)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center of Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, United States, (2)Clemson University, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Clemson, SC, United States, (3)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States, (4)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (5)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (6)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (7)Instituto Geofísico del Perú, Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Lima, Peru, (8)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States
SA32B-04
An Empirical Reference Model of the Quiet-Time Thermospheric Neutral Wind (Invited) (3532)
Douglas Patrick Drob, Naval Research Lab, Space Science Division, Washington, United States
SA32B-05
Modeling Thermospheric Dynamics Under all Solar, Geomagnetic, and Lower Atmosphere Conditions (Invited) (3603)
Timothy J Fuller-Rowell1, Mariangel Fedrizzi2, Tzu-Wei Fang3, Mihail Codrescu4, Catalin Negrea3, Xian Lu5 and Fei Wu6, (1)Univ of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA/SWPC - University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, United States, (5)Clemson University, Physics and Astronomy, Clemson, United States, (6)Univ of Colorado-CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
SA32B-06
Neutral Winds through the Mesosphere and Thermosphere derived from Incoherent Scatter Radar: Variability and Climatology (Invited) (6322)
Michael J Nicolls, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, United States
SA32B-07
Three-station measurements of upward vertical wind associated with auroral precipitation. (19469)
Donald L Hampton1, John W Meriwether2 and Mark Conde1, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (2)New Jersey Institute of Technology, Center of Solar-Terrestrial Research, Edison, United States
SA32B-08
The Response of Thermospheric Winds to Geomagnetic Storms and Its Solar Cycle Dependence (6934)
Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, Alan Geoffrey Burns, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States and Liying Qian, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
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