Lower Thermosphere Coupling Study (LTCS) Workshop

LTCS is an ongoing CEDAR working group that focuses on the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, encouraging coordinated collaborative investigations using a combination of observations and modeling efforts. This workshop will focus on the observation and modeling results of the LTCS campaigns. Discussion topics include:

1. TIMED/CEDAR collaborative studies - Assimilation of ground-based and TIMED satellite data for collaborative studies of tides, waves, etc.
2. Geomagnetic activity - Effects of geomagnetic activity on the lower thermosphere manifested in LTCS datasets.
   1. CEDAR-TIMED storm campaign planning.
3. Wind and temperature shears in the MLT region - Observational evidence of temperature and wind shears in the MLT region.
4. Advances in Modeling of Lower Thermospheric Dynamics
5. Advances in Observational techniques for Lower Thermospheric Studies
6. Climatology - Update on the climatological paper bringing together our LTCS results, in preparation for the upcoming TIMED launch.

Those interested in making a short presentations, please contact either Roberta Johnson or Irfan Azeem by June 8, 2001.