| Session Details | |
| Section | ST - Solar & Terrestrial Sciences |
| Session Title | Coupling Processes in the Mesosphere-Thermosphere-Ionosphere (MTI) System |
| Main Convener | Dr. Maxim Klimenko (West Department of IZMIRAN, Russian Federation) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Huixin Liu (Kyushu University, Japan) Dr. Loren Chang (National Central University, Taiwan) Dr. Jiuhou Lei (University of Science and Technology of China, China) Dr. Amal Chandran (University of Alaska, United States) Dr. Katelynn Greer (University of California, Berkeley, United States) Prof. Archana Bhattacharyya (Indian Institute of Geomagnetism, India) Dr. Biqiang Zhao (Institute of Geology and Geophysics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) |
| Session Description | Understanding space and atmospheric variability from a whole atmosphere perspective is becoming the key for the next breakthrough in solar-terrestrial science. This session focuses on physical/chemical processes occurring in the mesosphere, thermosphere, and ionosphere (MTI) at all latitudes. Both quiet and disturbed states in response to lower atmospheric forcing through tides and waves and magnetospheric forcing through electric field penetration and high latitude heating are important for the understanding the MTI region and its coupling to other regions. Presentations on theoretical, observational and model results on all aspects of MTI coupling including gravity and planetary waves and tides, TADs and TIDs, Sudden Stratospheric Warming, polar mesospheric clouds, equatorial and auroral electrojets, equatorial spread-F and ionization anomaly (EIA), equatorial multi-layer structure, inter-hemispheric coupling and ionosphere-thermosphere storms are solicited. |