| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Middle- and Low-Latitude Ionosphere |
| Main Convener | Prof. Jann-Yenq (Tiger) Liu (National Central University, Taiwan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Huey-Ching Yeh (National Central University, Taiwan) |
| Session Description | Main Organizer Jann-Yenq Liu, Institute of Space Science, National Central University, TAIWAN jyliu@jupiter.ss.ncu.edu.tw Co-Organizer(s) Huey-Ching Yeh, Institute of Space Science, National Central University, TAIWAN yeh@jupiter.ss.ncu.edu.tw Brief Description Space-borne and ground-based instruments have been employed to observe scintillation, plasma irregularities, equatorial anomaly, TID, sporadic-E layer, airglow, electrojet, plasma drift, neutral wind and ionosphere composition. Projects of WESTPAC, PREASA, MAGDAS, and MERIDIAN as well as campaigns of SEEK1 and 2 were designed to investigate the dynamics and coupling between the high, middle and low latitude ionosphere, and to better understand the characteristics, and mechanisms responsible for producing ionospheric irregularities. Developments of space-based observations such as ROCSAT-1, TIMED, C/NOFS, FORMOSAT-2, FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC provide better resolutions in both temporal and spatial coverage in ionospheric studies. This session shall review, summarize and plan observations and theories of dynamics and structure of the middle- and low-latitude ionosphere. |