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

Seyler/Cornell: Electron and ion acceleration by Alfven wave breakup

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

Slanger/SRI: Atmospherically-related studies of O(¹D) and O2(b^{1 1}S⁺_g)

Spence/BU: Separating spatial and temporal variations of the aurora using two nearly
colocated satellites

Stevens/NRL - Large and small scale structure of NO in the mesosphere and lower
thermosphere: Separating chemistry and dynamics using MAHRSI observations*

Thorne/UCLA: Electron precipitation from the inner magnetosphere and its effect on the
middle atmosphere

Torbert/New Hampshire - Renewal Proposal: Further data analysis of the Auroral
Turbulence II sounding rocket*

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

Wing/APL: Modeling the entry of solar wind particles into the dayside ionosphere

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

Winick/Phillips Lab - A coordinated investigation of 15 mm CO2 cooling rates in the
upper mesosphere and lower thermosphere utilizing MSX multispectral data*

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

*Programs started or renewed in FY 1998