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Supporting Research and Technology Program
in
Ionospheric, Thermospheric, and Mesospheric Physics
Fiscal Year 1998


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


Burns/Michigan: Studies of the thermospheric response to geomagnetic storms during
solar minimum conditions


Burrage/Michigan: Dynamical variations in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere:
Seasonal and interannual variation


Codrescu/Colorado: Medium energy particle precipitation effects on the mesosphere and
lower thermosphere*


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


Copeland/SRI: Tmerpature and vibrational-level dependence of processes important in
the O
2ultraviolet nightglow**


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: Energetics of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere


Dodd/Stewart Lab: Temeprature-dependent rate constants for NO(n) + O vibrational
energy transfer*


Dunkerton/NorthWest Research: Decadal variability and temperature trends in the middle
atmosphere from historical rocketsonde data


Earle/UTDallas: Development and demonstration of a robust micro-electromechanical
pressure transducer for low altitude satellite anemometer applications


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


Ergun/Berkeley: Characterization and numerical simulation of fast solitary waves in the
auroral ionosphere*


Fejer/Utah - Satellite studies of storm time dependent mid- and low-latitude
thermospheric neutral winds and electric fields*