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LWS TR&T Focus
Teams:
Response of thermospheric
density and composition to solar and high latitude forcing
Team Chair: Art Richmond
Next Team Meeting:
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Friday,
2007 September 14, 0830-1700, Room 2126
NCAR High Altitude Observatory, 3080 Center Green, Boulder, CO 80301
(In conjunction with the Living With a Star Workshop)
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Thursday,
2007 April 19, 1800-2130, Room 2126
NCAR High Altitude Observatory, 3080 Center Green, Boulder, CO 80301
(In conjunction with the Space Weather Workshop)
Team-Maintained
Web Site:
Team Publications:
Team Members:
- Phil Anderson, UTD
- Dirk Lummerzheim, UAF
- Stan Solomon, UCAR/NCAR
- Kent Tobiska, SET
Goals and
measures of success: Research on this Topic will produce improved
first principle thermosphere-ionosphere models sufficient to specify
thermospheric density and composition models, and their variation with
latitude,
longitude, local time, solar flux, season, magnetic activity level,
and IMF
changes. These predictions will be validated against both empirical
models and
data with the goal of improving our ability to specify solar radiative
and high
latitude inputs for first principle models.
Types of solicited investigations: It is expected that
the research objectives of
submitted proposals will include, but not be limited to, investigations
that deal
with (i) techniques to improve specification of solar radiative inputs
to the
thermosphere-ionosphere system; (ii) techniques to improve the specification
of
high latitude inputs for global first principle thermosphere-ionosphere
models;
(iii) energy transfer from the magnetosphere to the thermosphere-ionosphere
system; (iv) thermosphere-ionosphere coupling; (v) neutral wind responses;
(vi)
fundamental understanding and improved numerical models for the processes
driving thermospheric density and composition; and (vii) validation
of the
resulting thermospheric simulations by comparison with related data
sets.
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