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Abstract submission is now open for the 15th European Space Weather Week http://www.stce.be/esww2018/ which will take place from 5 to 9 November 2018, at Leuven (Belgium).
We warmly invite abstract submissions to our session **Session 12 - Thermosphere and Ionosphere: Irregular dynamics and structures as a response to Space Weather Events ** that will take place on Friday 9 Nov 2018, 09:00-10:30 & 11:15-12:45.
www.stce.be/esww15/program/session_details.php?nr=12
The ESWW15 meeting details can be found in the conference website where the necessary guide and links to the abstract submission are also present
** The abstract submission deadline is 18 May 2018 **
We are looking forward to seeing you in Belgium in November !
Many thanks and best wishes,
Mirko and Massimo
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Session 12 - Thermosphere and Ionosphere : Irregular dynamics and structures as a response to Space Weather Events
Conveners: Mirko Piersanti (University of L'Aquila), Massimo Materassi (CNR, Italy)
Friday 9/11, 09:00-10:30 & 11:15-12:45
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The Thermosphere – Ionosphere system is a medium highly structured on many time and spatial scales. On the one hand, it shows rather stable and robust large patterns of convection and currents (such as Sudden Impulses current convection pattern); on the other hand, high and low latitudes show very irregular, highly time-variable small scale patterns (namely, plasma turbulence causing scintillation on trans-ionospheric L-band signals, plasma bubbles, large scale travelling ionospheric disturbance). Both the exact mechanism of response to external drivers, and the role played by the thermosphere (in terms of neutral wind, atmospheric waves and plasma drift) in generating Ionosphere irregularities is not completely understood yet.
In the last two decades, the interest in Ionospheric irregularities at different time and space scales has been growing fast, because of the considerable effects on the manmade technological infrastructure such as: geomagnetically induced currents, or the threats to performance of the satellite communication and navigation. Since those irregularities are due to the presence and variability of plasma structures in the ionosphere, understanding physical mechanisms that regulate the formation of the latter and their dynamics, as a result of magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling, is crucial to develop reliable prediction models and mitigation techniques, in order to be able to tackle the effect on technological systems.
This Session solicits and welcomes contributors to make the point on their research about how such multiscale patterns respond to the Sun activity and to the ionosphere-thermosphere interaction. Such a subject is very relevant from a technological point of view as both radio communications and industrial facilities may be vulnerable to plasma turbulence and ionospheric induced currents at ground, respectively.
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Dr. M. Piersanti
INFN
University of Rome Tor Vergata,
Rome,
Italy
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Dr. M. Piersanti
INFN
University of Rome Tor Vergata,
Rome,
Italy
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