SA11A:
Global Dynamical Response of the Upper Atmosphere to External Forcing I


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Session ID#: 61503

Session Description:
New missions such as GOLD, ICON and COSMIC 2 have recently been launched to study the way that the low and middle latitude ionosphere and thermosphere change as a result of various forcing mechanisms. These new missions, in conjunction with existing ground and space based observatories (such as TIMED, DMSP, Swarm, etc.) and general circulation models, give us a new perspective on the Earth’s upper atmosphere and help us better understand issues such as how the state of the topside ionosphere is related both to the thermosphere and the lower ionosphere. Papers in this session will address issues related to the forcing of the middle and low latitude thermosphere and ionosphere using observations, data analysis and models.
Primary Convener:  Alan Geoffrey Burns, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, Yongliang Zhang, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Shunrong Zhang, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alan Geoffrey Burns, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Alan Geoffrey Burns, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States, Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, Yongliang Zhang, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Shunrong Zhang, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alan Geoffrey Burns, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States
Index Terms:

0355 Thermosphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
2437 Ionospheric dynamics [IONOSPHERE]
2481 Topside ionosphere [IONOSPHERE]
3369 Thermospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Empirical quantification of the vertical transport and escape of atomic hydrogen in the terrestrial upper atmosphere (437543)
Lara Waldrop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Yamuna Phal, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, Robert Kerr, Computational Physics Inc., Lowell, Lowell, United States and Jianqi Qin, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Imaging the Global Dynamical Response of the Upper Atmosphere to High Latitude Forcing (Invited) (357817)
Larry J Paxton, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and SSUSI and GUVI Teams
Tide-Kelvin Wave Interactions in the Tropical Ionosphere and Thermosphere: An ICON Perspective (399717)
Jeffrey M M Forbes1, Astrid I Maute2, Xiaoli Zhang1, Christoph R Englert3, Roderick A Heelis4 and Thomas J Immel5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, (3)Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (4)University Texas Dallas, Richardson, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD): First Light Observations (Invited) (375609)
William E McClintock1, Richard Eastes2, Laila Andersson3, Alan Geoffrey Burns4, Mihail Codrescu5, Robert Edward Daniell Jr6, Scott England7, J Scott Evans8, Katelynn Greer9, Andrey Krywonos10, Jerry D Lumpe11, Carlos R. Martinis12, Jens Oberheide13, Arthur D Richmond14, David W Rusch15, Oswald Siegmund16 and Stanley C Solomon4, (1)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (4)NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, United States, (6)Ionospheric Physics, Stoughton, MA, United States, (7)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, (8)Computational Physics, Inc., Springfield, United States, (9)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (10)UCF-Florida Space Institute, Orlando, FL, United States, (11)Computational Physics, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (13)Clemson University, Clemson, United States, (14)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)Sensor Sciences, LLC, Pleasant Hill, United States
Concurrent Solar Flare and Geomagnetic Storm Effects on the Thermosphere and Ionosphere During September 2017 (411074)
Liying Qian, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, Alan Geoffrey Burns, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States, Phillip C Chamberlin, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States and Anthea Coster, MIT Haystack Observatory, Westford, MA, United States
Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD): Early Orbit Observations (425618)
Richard Eastes1, Alan Geoffrey Burns2, Bill McClintock3, Laila Andersson4, Mihail Codrescu5, Robert Edward Daniell Jr6, Scott England7, J. scott Evans8, Jerry D Lumpe9, Carlos R. Martinis10, Arthur D Richmond11, David W Rusch12, Oswald Siegmund13, Stanley C Solomon2, Thomas N Woods14, David N Anderson15, Arve Aksnes16, Scott Alan Budzien17, Kenneth Dymond18, Dr. Francis Gerard Eparvier, Ph.D.19, Jens Oberheide20, Sarah Jones21, Janet U Kozyra22 and GOLD Science Team, (1)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (5)SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, United States, (6)Ionospheric Physics, Stoughton, MA, United States, (7)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, Blacksburg, United States, (8)Computational Physics Inc, washington DC, United States, (9)Computational Physics, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States, (11)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)Sensor Sciences, LLC, Pleasant Hill, United States, (14)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (15)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (17)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (18)U.S. Naval Reseach Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (19)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (20)Clemson University, Clemson, United States, (21)Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (22)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Observations and Modeling of Atomic/Molecular Composition in the Thermosphere (440839)
Stanley C Solomon1, Richard Eastes2, William E McClintock2, Larry J Paxton3 and Yongliang Zhang3, (1)NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States

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