Supporting Research and Technology Program in Ionospheric, Thermospheric, and Mesospheric Physics Fiscal Year 1996

Ajello/JPL: High resolution, temperature dependent photoabsorption cross section measurements of O2 and N2 important to the Earth's atmosphere

Borovsky/Los Alamos: Cooridnated observations of the aurora and the auroral magnetosphere

Coley/UTD: Adaptive identification and characterization of polar ionization patches

Copeland/SRI: Collisional processes important in the O2 ultraviolet airglow

Craven/Alaska: Model auroral electron precipitation patterns for coupled thermosphere- ionosphere simulations

Croskey/Penn State: Development of naonotechnology sensors for space applications: An instrumented falling sphere for the measurement of density, temperature, and winds in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

Crowley/APL: A new framework for the study of high latitude lower-thermospheric structure caused by thermosphere-ionosphere coupling

Dyer/SRI: Laboratory studies of mesospheric OH collisional energy transfer

Eccles/SEC: The electrodynamics of the E and F region dynamos in the transition altitudes of the equatorial ionosphere

Erlandson/APL: Correlative studies of ionospheric electron temperatures at high latitudes: Field-aligned currents and low frequency waves

Fejer/Utah: Satellite studies of storm time mid- and low-latitude ionospheric electrodynamics

Forbes/Colorado: Natural oscillations of the thermosphere-ionosphere system

Ganguli, S/SAIC: Coupling between field-aligned transport and convection in the auroral and polar cap ionosphere

Gary/APL: Low latitude current systems determined from satellite magnetic field observations

Gilchrist/Michigan: Development of the space tethered instrument concept for ITM science

Goldberg/GSFC: Mesospheric response to impacting relativistic electrons

Goldman/Colorado: Nonlinear wave and particle heating in the auroral ionosphere

Heelis/UTD: The spatial distribution of plasma and field structures at high latitudes

Herrero/GSFC: The vertical neutral wind in the lower-latitude thermosphere

Hickey/UAH: Wave driven exothermic heating in the menopause region

Hoffman/GSFC: Magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling in the electrodynamics of substorms

Huo/Ames: Production of atomic nitrogen in the thermosphere by electron - N2 collisions

Hysell/Clemson: Analysis of equatorial ionospheric turbulence using DE and San Marco data

Inan/Stanford: Heating, ionization and red sprites produced in the lower thermosphere by quasi electrostatic thundercloud fields

Killeen/Michigan: Continued data analysis and theoretical studies of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

Kletzing/New Hampshire: Kinetic Alfven wave electron acceleration on auroral field lines

Kozyra/Michigan: Studies of inner magnetospheric processes and their coupling to the underlying ionosphere and atmosphere

LaBelle/Dartmouth: Investigation of equatorial spread-F rocket data

Lieberman/Michigan: Global observation of planetary-scale waves in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere from the High Resolution Doppler Imager (HRDI) and the Wind Imaging Interferometer (WINDII)

Lin/Berkeley: Kinetic analysis of the correlation between electromagnetic waves and realistic electron fluxes on auroral field lines

Lotko/Dartmouth: Oblique Alfven dynamics of the plasma sheet-ionosphere interaction

Lynch/New Hampshire: Wave acceleration of auroral ions: AMICIST data set

Lysak/Minnesota: A three-dimensional, time-dependent model of the interaction of Alfven waves with the ionosphere

Mayr/GSFC: Modeling of waves, tides, and equatorial oscillations in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

Mendillo/BU: Use of NASA's Global Positioning System (GPS) Monitoring Network for studies of ionospheric structure and variability

Menietti/Iowa: Comprehensive investigation of 2 fp radio emissions observed by DE 1 in the dayside and nightside auroral regions

Newell/APL: Pressure profiles of the magnetosphere as reflected in ionospheric observations

Otani/Iowa: Simulations of the Farley-Buneman instability in the E-region ionosphere

Parish/UCLA: Simulations of the effects of planetary wave oscillations on the thermosphere and ionosphere using a Coupled Thermosphere Ionosphere Model (CTIM)

Parks/Washington: An investigation of the source of microburst electron precipitation by comparison of data to wave-particle interactions mechanisms

Pfaff/Goddard: Analysis of electric field, current density, and plasma instability data gathered in the equatorial electrojet during the NASA/Brazil rocket campaign, 1994, and electric field data gathered during the Atmospheric Response in Auroras (ARIA) experiment 1995

Picone/NRL: Empirical modeling of the neutral atmosphere

Reiff/Rice: Electron loss rates in the inner magnetosphere

Retterer/Phillips Lab: Spikelets and lower hybrid collapse

Richards/Alabama: Quantification of neutral wind variability in the upper thermosphere

Richmond/NCAR: Analysis of large-scale magnetosphere-ionosphere electrodynamics coupling

Robertson/Colorado: Charged particulates in the polar mesosphere/Instrument development

Roble/NCAR: Global solar-terrestrial electrostatic coupling study

Roussel-Dupre/Los Alamos: High altitude discharges and gamma-ray flashes as a manifestation of runaway air breakdown

Rowland/NRL: Ionospheric heating and acceleration by lightning bursts

Sentman/Alaska: Analysis of video and ELF/VLF data obtained during the Sprites94 campaign

Seyler/Cornell: Theory and simulation of lower hybrid waves and associated ion acceleration in the auroral region

Singh/Alabama: Three-dimensional numerical simulation of nonlinear lower hybrid wave propagation

Slanger/SRI: Atmospherically-related studies of O(1D) and O2(b1 1S+g)

Smith, K/Rice: Measurement of electron impact cross sections of importance in planetary atmospheres

Strickland/CPI: Thermospheric O/N2 based on DE-1 imaging results

Thayer/SRI: Modeling of the coupled magnetospheric and neutral wind dynamics

Walterscheid/Aerospace: Gravity wave mean-state interactions in the upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere

Winckler/Minnesota: Studies in magnetospheric, ionospheric and mesospheric plasma physics

Winglee/Washington: Magnetosheath/ionospheric coupling in the cusp/cleft region

Yee/APL: Global atomic oxygen distribution in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (80-105 km)