Dec 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufmsa11a..01b&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #SA11A-01
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1650 Solar Variability, 2427 Ionosphere/Atmosphere Interactions (0335), 2431 Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions (2736), 2437 Ionospheric Dynamics, 2499 General Or Miscellaneous
Scientific paper
In 1986 the upper atmospheric (aeronomy) community came together and made recommendations for a unified, multi-year program involving ground-based instrumentation, theoretical investigations and modeling in a program called Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR). The recommendations were based on the conviction that the time was ripe to improve existing instrumentation and develop powerful new ground-based techniques in order to enable the community to realize progress over a broad range of topics central to our understanding the solar-terrestrial environment. An essential feature of CEDAR was a coordinated experimental and theoretical approach involving extensive collaboration. The Program was designed as a three-phased effort, with each successive phase producing a growing number of exciting new capabilities and opportunities that would enable concurrent scientific progress. This talk will document the scientific successes of CEDAR as it has progressed, along with the enabling ground-based instrumentation, through the three phases of the program. Many of the original scientific goals have been accomplished. It is abundantly clear that CEDAR has made tremendous progress in our understanding of how the different atmospheric regions are coupled together. This talk will also show how the annual workshop has become critical to the aeronomy community and an important venue for introducing aeronomical research to students. CEDAR has evolved with time as new discoveries and techniques have inspired new areas of research. Although many scientific questions have been answered, the people, techniques and infrastructure established by CEDAR are now poised to address a new set of topics in upper atmospheric research. The success of CEDAR seems to be due to a combination of significant new funding, dedicated and wise leadership, the development of a new paradigm in workshops, and true interest in student participation. Perhaps most important of all is that CEDAR has unified a previously fragmented community and has become a model for other communities of researchers to follow.
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