Finally, after repeated postponements due to unfavorable weather conditions, HiWind launched from Esrange Space Center, Kiruna, Sweden, on Sunday, 24 June. The HiWIND team arrived early May 2018. During May, they assembled the gondola and mounted numerous specialized instrumentation in preparation for a June launch.
Hanli Liu gave the CEDAR Prize Lecture on Thursday, June 28th, at the CEDAR Summer Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Prize Lecture was awarded in recognition of the work accomplished on the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model–eXtended (WACCM-X) and the paper describing it that was recently published in the Journal of Advances in Modeling of Earth Systems.
BC Low elaborates on the extraordinary sixty years of progress made to space observation of the Sun, solar wind, planets and their magnetospheres. He notes that space platforms complementing ground-based observatories have transformed solar physics.
Stan Solomon et al, dicuss a new modeling capability that self-consistently couples physics-based magnetospheric 18 electron precipitation with its impact on the ionosphere, representing a significant improvement over previous models.
Nicholas Pedatella notes that geomagnetic storms are an important driver of variability in Earth’s ionosphere, and can have significant societal impacts through the ionosphere’s impact on communications and navigation systems (e.g., GPS).
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