Ionospheric Space Weather: Longitude Dependence And Lower Atmosphere Forcing

The fundamental theme of the volume refers to the physics and mechanisms behind the longitudinal and hemispheric dependencies of space weather and the connection between tropospheric weather and space weather. The volume provides a clear description of the physics of this system that controls the longitude and hemispheric dependence of space weather in several tutorial-like articles that will be of value to the upper atmosphere scientific community in general and to the ongoing global magnetosphere- ionosphere-thermosphere (MIT) modeling effort in particular. A number of articles from each science theme describes details of the physics behind each phenomenon that help to solve the complexity of the MIT system. Since the volume is an outcome of the research presented at the first Chapman conference held in Africa, it will further provide great opportunities and motivations to the African scientists to communicate their research results with the international community using the volume as a vehicle. In particular, this conference volume will greatly enhance the space science education and research interest in the African continent and across the globe. The interaction between African and other international scientists through this monograph will significantly spark interest in space science education and research throughout Africa and other continents globally.

The volume includes articles from six science themes that were discussed at the Chapman conference in 2012. These include:i) Hemispherical Dependence of Magnetospheric Energy Injection and the Thermosphere-Ionosphere Response;
ii) Longitude and Hemispheric Dependence of Storm-Enhanced Densities (SED);
iii) Response to the Thermosphere and Ionosphere to Variability in Solar Radiation;
iv) Longitude Spatial Structure in Total Electron Content and Electrodynamics;
v) Temporal Response to the Lower-Atmosphere Disturbances; vi) Ionospheric Irregularities and Scintillation

The proposed volume will be useful to both active researchers and advanced graduate students in the field of physics, geophysics and engineering, especially who are keen to acquire a global understanding of equatorial ionosphere motion and want to take the global modeling effort one step forward by including observational information from longitudinal sectors across the globe.

Dr. Tim Fuller-Rowell is a Senior Research Scientist and a Fellow of the Cooperative? Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Tim has contributed book chapters in the AGU GM series and journal articles in AGU journal JGR and Geophysical Research Letters. He has co-edited an AGU volume in the GM series.

Dr. Endawoke Yizengaw is a Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Scientific Research, at the Boston College. Endawoke has published journal articles in AGU journal JGR and Geophysical Research Letters.

Ms. Patricia H. Doherty is the Director and Senior Scientist in the Institute for Scientific Research at the Boston College.

Dr. Sunanda Basu is a Senior Research Physicist in the Institute for Scientific Research at the Boston College. She has been the Former Program Director of Aeronomy, NSF Division of Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences (1992-2002). She has also been the Chair, SCOSTEP Program on Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (2002-2006) and former Chair of the AGU Development Board (2010-2012). Sunanda has published several journal articles in AGU journal JGR and Geophysical Research Letters.