Keynote 1 (10:45-11:15)
Session 1: Planetary/Rossby waves and tides I
J. M. Forbes: Planetary wave-tide interactions and consequences in the middle and upper atmosphere (invited)
J. Oberheide: Short-term tidal variability in the ionospheric dynamo region over one solar cycle (invited)
R. R. Garcia: Seasonal and interannual variability of the diurnal tides observed by SABER (invited)
L. Chang: Coherent seasonal, annual, and quasi-biennial variations in ionospheric tidal/SPW amplitudes: Observations and Modeling
Session 2: Planetary/Rossby waves and tides II
Session 3: Middle atmosphere climate
D. R. Marsh: Are stratospheric ozone chemistry feedbacks critical for the determination of climate sensitivity? (invited)
K. Matthes: Decadal variability and its relation to the solar cycle and internal variability (invited)
B. Funke: Mesosphere-stratosphere coupling by polar winter descent of odd nitrogen (invited)
Y. Tomikawa: Dynamical response of the SH middle atmosphere to energetic particle precipitations in the latest reanalysis data
Session 4: Sudden stratospheric warming and SSW-initiated global coupling
R. A. Vincent: Stratospheric warmings in the southern hemisphere and coupling to the mesosphere (invited)
T. Birner: Sudden stratospheric warmings and anomalous upward wave activity flux (invited)
T. Hirooka: Modulation of the semiannual oscillation induced by sudden stratospheric warming events (invited)
Y. J. Orsolini: Role of planetary waves, gravity waves and tides in the downward transport of nitrogen oxides during elevated stratopause events
S. Noguchi: Predictability of the stratospheric polar vortex breakdown: An ensemble reforecast experiment for the splitting event in January 2009
C. Zülicke: Relation of low-latitude mesospheric wind anomalies to SAO, QBO and SSW
F. I. Laskar: Interhemispheric coupling during sudden stratospheric warmings and at different phases of Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
K. Sato: Interhemispheric Coupling Study by Observations and Modelling (ICSOM)
Keynote 2 (9:30-10:00)
Session 5: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling I
M. A. Geller: Baroclinic mixing of potential vorticity as the principal sharpening mechanism for the tropopause inversion layer (invited)
M. H. Hitchman: On the role of inertial instability in cyclones: Stratosphere-troposphere exchange, jet acceleration, and PV dipoles (invited)
K. Nishii: Decay processes of short and long extreme stratospheric polar vortex events
Session 6: Stratosphere-troposphere coupling II
T. Iwasaki: Impacts of low-level polar cold air outbreaks on Brewer-Dobson circulations (invited)
S.-W. Son: Modulation of the organized tropical deep convections by the stratospheric Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (invited)
E. Nishimoto: Influence of the stratospheric Quasi-Biennial Oscillation on the Madden-Julian Oscillation during austral summer
M. P. Baldwin: How does stratospheric polar vortex variability affect surface weather? (invited)
M. Abalos: Phase-speed spectra of tracer eddy fluxes linked to isentropic stirring in the UTLS
Session 7: Gravity waves I
H.-Y. Chun: Convective gravity waves and their interaction with QBO (invited)
S. L. Vadas: The vertical coupling of the lower to upper atmosphere via atmospheric gravity waves (invited)
A. Hertzog: Gravity waves: Long-duration balloon observations and parameterization in climate models (invited)
P. Preusse: Global gravity wave distributions from limb-sounding satellites, ECMWF and ray-tracing modelling (invited)
I. Krisch: 3D tomographic measurements of gravity waves with the IR limb imager GLORIA during GW-LCYCLE
D. J. Murphy: Gravity waves in models and observations over Antarctica and the Southern Ocean (invited)
R. Shibuya: Inertia-gravity waves with a wave period of quasi-12 h in the mesosphere observed by the PANSY radar
Keynote 3 (9:30-10:00)
Session 8: Vertical coupling I
Huixin Liu: Thermospheric inter-annual variability: Implications for effects of ENSO and QBO (invited)
K. Shiokawa: Horizontal and vertical coupling of the middle and upper atmosphere observed by airglow imagers (invited)
J. Yue: Quasi-two-day wave coupling of the middle atmosphere and ionosphere-thermosphere (invited)
Session 9: Vertical coupling II
X. Chu: Thermospheric Fe layers up to ~200 km in Antarctica and their coupling with the atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere (invited)
Y. Miyoshi: Vertical propagation of gravity waves in the thermosphere simulated by GAIA (invited)
H. Schmidt: What determines the downward transport of nitrogen oxides from the lower thermosphere to the stratosphere? (invited)
R. Yasui: An analysis on the momentum budget in the MLT region based on satellite and whole atmosphere model data
A. de la Camara: The impact of source-related nonorographic gravity wave parameterizations on the circulation of the middle atmosphere
Session 10: Observations and technology of the middle and upper atmosphere
I. M. Reid: Meteor radar and airglow observations at middle and high latitudes (invited)
M. Yamamoto: Study of ionospheric irregularities over Japan and Indonesia with radars and other instruments (invited)
J. L. Chau: MMARIA: A multi-static, multi-frequency meteor radar approach to improve the MLT wind field measurements (invited)
M. Tsutsumi: Characteristics of mesosphere echoes over Antarctica obtained using PANSY and MF radars
K. Nishimura: Technical development for MST radar; Pulse coding, signal processing and spectrum estimation
Session 11: Gravity waves II
M. Rapp and *P. Preusse: Initial results of the GW-LCYCLE campaign 2015/16 - results on the life cycle of gravity waves from combined airborne and ground based observations (invited)
T. Moffat-Griffin: Measuring mesospheric gravity waves from above the oceans: a ship-borne imager
X. Lu: Statistical characterization of high-to-medium frequency gravity waves in vertical winds and temperatures in the MLT
Session 12: Gravity waves III
Session 13: High-resolution GCM
M. J. Alexander: Gravity waves and precipitation in high-resolution models and observations (invited)
E. Manzini: Towards a high resolution stratosphere in ICON (invited)
E. Becker: Explicit simulation of gravity waves up to the lower thermosphere using a global circulation model (invited)
Hanli Liu: Gravity Wave Variation from the Stratosphere to the Lower Thermosphere During Stratospheric Sudden Warming Events (invited)
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