Sixto Gonzalez, Arecibo Observatory, sixto@naic.edu
Philip Erickson, MIT/Haystack, pje@haystack.mit.edu
Robert Kerr, Scientific Solutions, kerr@sci-sol.com
John Noto, Scientific Solutions, noto@sci-sol.com
Skaggs 2A-305, 4:00-6:00 PM
Thursday, June 29, 2000
The topside ionosphere is the region above the F region peak where the abundance of light ions (i.e. hydrogen, and helium) becomes significant. This region couples the O+ dominated F-region to the plasmasphere which is mostly composed of protons. In many studies of this region one or more ISR radars, spacecraft measurements, ground based optical instruments may be used together and complemented with numerical simulations in order to try to understand the ionosphere-plasmasphere system which is embedded in the thermosphere-exosphere gas. More information can be found at the POLITE homepage: http://hyperion.haystack.edu/polite/index.html
The workshop is intended to provide a forum to present recent progress
and discuss future directions. It will follow up some of issues raised
at the 2000 topside workshop held at Arecibo earlier this year
(http://www.naic.edu/~sixto/workshop.html).
In addition we hope to start
planning our next workshop. As usual we will do our best to maintain
formal presentations to the bare minimum and leave ample time for
informal discussions. Some of the presentations we expect include: