Aeronomy of the Earth's Atmosphere and Ionosphere

Preface.- 1: Electrodynamics, Coupling Processes, Large and Small Scale Structures of the Ionosphere/ Atmosphere.- Modeling lectromagnetic signature of  thermospheric winds.- The ionosphere under an extremely quiet Sun.- Electrodynamic forcing of ionosphere from above and below.- Low latitude ionospheric and thermospheric dynamics from meridonal ionosondes.- Equatorial plasma bubble from magnetospheric forcing.- Variablity of quiet time low latitude ionospheric plasma drifts.- Lessons on thermosphere-ionosphere from champ mission.- Radio and optical investigations of the low-latitude ionosphere-thermosphere system.- Influences on the development equatorial ionospheric irregularities.- Atomic oxygen in the upper mesosphere from Saber.- Longitudinal structure of mid-low-latitude ionosphere from FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC and GPS network.- Equatorial ionization anomaly, thermospheric winds and geomagnetic field secular variation.- Day-to-day variability in equatorial spread-F.- Analysis of TLES observed in the southeastern US.- How to simulate sprite discharges in laboratory and computer.- RISING satellite observation and ground-based network.- Longitudinal difference of the PMSE at high arctic latitudes.- Mesospheric aerosol: an overview from ECOMA-project.- Meteoric aerosols in the middle atmosphere.- First satellite observations of meteoric smoke in the upper atmosphere.- In situ measurements of small-scale dynamics in the polar Summer mesosphere.- Gravity wave properties in the Summer polar regions. 2: Structure, Variability and Coupling Processes in the Middle Atmosphere-Thermosphere.- Gravity wave coupling into the thermosphere and ionosphere under varying solar conditions.- Gravity wave coupling into the tropical MLT.- Tides from models and observations: results from cawses tidal campaigns.- Nonmigrating diurnal tides in the thermosphere.- Planetary wave coupling of atmosphere-ionosphere: results from February-April 2008 CAWSES-Indiacampaign.- Mesosphere-ionosphere coupling from penetration of gravity waves in the equatorial region.- Gravity wave coupling from lower altitudes to thermosphere/ionosphere: neutral- plasma responses.- Longitudinal difference in mesosphere/lower thermosphere structures from lidar, airglow radar measurements.- The causal link of the DE-3 tide, vertical drift, and plasma density.- Nonmigrating tidal signals in the thermospheric zonal wind as seen by CHAMP and TIME-GCM.- Inter-annual variability and aeronomic implications of nonmigrating tides forced by tropical convection.- The 8-hour tide in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere over Maui.- Coupling between tropo-strato-mesosphere-lower thermosphere and ionosphere through waves and oscillations: Results from MIDAS.- Propagation and filtering of gravity waves from deep convection in the thermosphere and F region at equatorial latitudes.- Recent experiments of atmospheric coupling processes in the equatorial region over Brazil.- Characteristics of temperature and density structures in the equatorial thermosphere simulated by a whole atmosphere GCM.- Climatology of the ~5-day rossby and ~6-day Kelvin waves seen in the Saber/timed temperatures (2002-2007).- 3: Ionosphere –Thermosphere Responses to Magnetospheric Forcing.- Promt penetration electric field and neutral wind dynamo in ionosphere/thermosphere: observations and simulations.- Magnetospheric electric fields and low latitude ionosphere during geomagnetic storms.- The coupled thermosphere-ionosphere system with external influence.- Modeling the impact of the storm time electric fields on the redistribution of the low latitude ionosphere.- Disturbance electric field effects on equatorial evening vertical drift and spread F development.- Super plasma fountain and ionospheric storms.- 4: Plasmasphere, Radiation Belt and Energetic Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere.- Energetic electron losses from the radiation belts.- Modeling wave-particlescattering and loss from the radiation belts.- Balloon observations of relativistic electron precipitation and the barrel experiment.- Remote sensing the dynamics of the ionosphere-plasmasphere system by ground-based ULF wave observations.- Empirical electron density models for the inner magnetosphere.- Recent results from spectrographic correlation of whistler-mode signals.- 5: Trends and Changes in the Atmosphere and Ionospheres.- Long-term trends in the upper atmosphere - recent progress.- Emperature response to solar activity in the MLT-region? An update.- Mesospheric gravity wave activity at mid and high latitudes and the dependence on the solar cycle.- F2-layer parameters as a source of information on trends in thermospheric winds.- Separation of chemically and dynamically induced ozone trends in winterly northern latitudes.- Eight years of PMC observations from ODIN/OSIRIS.- Stratospheric and solar cycle effects on long term variability of mesospheric ice clouds.- Index.