SA31A:
Neutral Dynamics: Significance to the Aeronomy and Challenge for Measurements and Simulations I Posters

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  John W Meriwether, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States and Timothy J Fuller-Rowell, Univ of Colorado-CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Yue Deng, University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Wenbin Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Jonathan J Makela, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Christoph R Englert, Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
The Michelson Interferometer for Global High-Resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI): Design and Performance Prediction of the Wind and Temperature Instrument on the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON)
Christoph R Englert1, John Harlander2, Charles M Brown1, Andrew W Stephan1, Jonathan J Makela3, Brian Joseph Harding3, Michael H Stevens1, Kenneth D Marr1 and Thomas J Immel4, (1)Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (2)SCSU, St Cloud, MN, United States, (3)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)Univ of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Impact of Midnight Temperature Maximum on the Nighttime Equatorial Vertical Drifts
Tzu-Wei Fang1, Rashid A Akmaev2, Timothy J Fuller-Rowell1, Houjun Wang1 and Fei Wu1, (1)Univ of Colorado-CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Dynamical influences on thermospheric composition: implications for semi-empirical models
Eric K Sutton, Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States and Stanley C Solomon, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
A case study of Ionospheric storm effects during long-lasting southward IMF Bz driven geomagnetic storm
Jing Liu Sr, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
 
Thermospheric meridional circulation during sudden stratospheric warming events
Fazlul Laskar and Pallam Raju Duggirala, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India
 
Analysis of equatorial F-region vertical neutral winds from Brazil FPI observations
Jose Luis De La Garza1, Yue Deng1, Jonathan J Makela2, Daniel James Fisher2, John W Meriwether3 and Rafael Mesquita3, (1)University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX, United States, (2)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
 
The Variation of Thermospheric Meridional Neutral Winds Deduced from F2 Layer Heights
Patrick B Dandenault and Phil Richards, George Mason University Fairfax, School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences, Fairfax, VA, United States
 
The Effects of Plasma-Neutral Interactions on Neutral Dynamics
Vicki Hsu and Jeffrey P Thayer, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Statistical analysis of thermospheric temperatures using four Fabry-Perot interferometers at high and low latitudes
Yoshihiro Nakamura1, Kazuo Shiokawa2, Yuichi Otsuka3, Shin-ichiro Oyama4, Satonori Nozawa1 and John W Meriwether5, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Nagoya University, Solar terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya, Japan, (3)Nagoya Univ, Nagoya, Japan, (4)STEL, Nagoya Univ., Nagoya, Japan, (5)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
 
Variations of nighttime enhancement in neutral and ion temperatures
Haibing Ruan1, Jiuhou Lei1 and Wenbin Wang2, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Neutral density anomalies in the whole polar thermosphere produced by ion drag
Mitsuru Matsumura, NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan and Satoshi Taguchi, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
 
A coordinated study of 1-h gravity wave propagating from Logan to Boulder using two Na Doppler lidars and a temperature mapper
Xian Lu1, Cao Chen2, Jian Zhao3, Wentao Huang3, Xinzhao Chu2, Chihoko Y. Cullens4, Tao Yuan5, Pierre-Dominique Pautet5, Yucheng Zhao5 and Michael J Taylor6, (1)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (6)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
 
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