Conveners:
Lard Dyrud (ldyrud@bu.edu)
Diego Janches (diego.janches@colorado.edu)
2005 Monday 27 June 0130 - 0330 PM
The workshop was held in a short presentation style followed by discussions. We had 11 presentations in the 2 hrs long session, 5 of which where student presentations. The speakers were Lars Dyrud from Center for Remote Sensing; Meers Openheim and Yacob Dimant from Boston University; Elias Lau and Santiago de la Peņa from University of Colorado; Anne Smith from NCAR, David Fritts and Diego Janches from CoRA/NWRA; and Stan Briscinski, Akshay Malhotra and Arnab Roy from Penn State University. The speakers and the topics discussed reflected the multi-disciplinary nature of this field. Topics included the meteor deposition of metal layers, modeling of meteor trail and head echoes, modeling of the global meteoric mass flux, observation using ISR radars and satellites and a novel meteor radar for momentum flux measurements. All these subjects showed once again the growing interest by the community in the effects and understanding of meteors and the mesopause. Finally, the convenors, Diego Janches and Lars Dyrud would like to thank everyone that took part and attended this years workshop.