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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Aspects of Weather and Space Weather in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere: The Role of Internal Atmospheric Waves. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5846.
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SIXTH LECTURE

INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES

ASPECTS OF WEATHER AND SPACE WEATHER IN THE EARTH'S UPPER ATMOSPHERE: THE ROLE OF INTERNAL ATMOSPHERIC WAVES

by

Michael C. Kelley

Professor of Electrical Engineering Cornell University

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C. 1997

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Aspects of Weather and Space Weather in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere: The Role of Internal Atmospheric Waves. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5846.
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The National Research Council serves as an independent advisor to the federal government on scientific and technical questions of national importance. Established in 1916 under the congressional charter of the private, nonprofit National Academy of Sciences, the Research Council brings the resources of the entire scientific and technical community to bear on national problems through its volunteer advisory committees. Today the Research Council stands as the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering and is administered jointly by the two academies and the Institute of Medicine. The National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine were established in 1964 and 1970, respectively, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Aspects of Weather and Space Weather in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere: The Role of Internal Atmospheric Waves. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5846.
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NAVAL STUDIES BOARD

David R. Heebner,

Science Applications International Corporation (retired),

Chair

George M. Whitesides,

Harvard University,

Vice Chair

Albert J. Baciocco, Jr.,

The Baciocco Group, Inc.

Alan Berman,

Applied Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University

Norman E. Betaque,

Logistics Management Institute

Norval L. Broome,

Mitre Corporation

Gerald A. Cann,

Raytheon Company

Seymour J. Deitchman,

Chevy Chase, Maryland, Special Advisor

Anthony J. DeMaria,

DeMaria ElectroOptics Systems, Inc.

John F. Egan,

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Robert Hummel,

Courant Institute of Mathematics, New York University

David W. McCall,

AT&T Bell Laboratories (retired)

Robert J. Murray,

Center for Naval Analyses

Robert B. Oakley,

National Defense University

William J. Phillips,

Northstar Associates, Inc.

Mara G. Prentiss,

Jefferson Laboratory, Harvard University

Herbert Rabin,

University of Maryland

Julie JCH Ryan,

Booz, Allen and Hamilton

Harrison Shull,

Naval Postgraduate School (retired)

Keith A. Smith,

Vienna, Virginia

Robert C. Spindel,

Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington

David L. Stanford,

Science Applications International Corporation

H. Gregory Tornatore,

Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University

J. Pace VanDevender,

Prosperity Institute

Vincent Vitto,

Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bruce Wald,

Center for Naval Analyses

Navy Liaison Representatives

Paul G. Blatch,

Office of the Chief of Naval Operations

Ronald N. Kostoff,

Office of Naval Research

Staff

Ronald D. Taylor, Director

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COMMISSION ON PHYSICAL SCIENCES, MATHEMATICS, AND APPLICATIONS

Robert J. Hermann,

United Technologies Corporation,

Co-Chair

W. Carl Lineberger,

University of Colorado,

Co-Chair

Peter M. Banks,

Environmental Research Institute of Michigan

Lawrence D. Brown,

University of Pennsylvania

Ronald G. Douglas,

Texas A&M University

John E. Estes,

University of California at Santa Barbara

L. Louis Hegedus,

Elf Atochem North America, Inc.

John E. Hopcroft,

Cornell University

Rhonda J. Hughes,

Bryn Mawr College

Shirley A. Jackson,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Kenneth H. Keller,

University of Minnesota

Kenneth I. Kellermann,

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Margaret G. Kivelson,

University of California at Los Angeles

Daniel Kleppner,

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

John Kreick, Sanders,

a Lockheed Martin Company

Marsha I. Lester,

University of Pennsylvania

Thomas A. Prince,

California Institute of Technology

Nicholas P. Samios,

Brookhaven National Laboratory

L.E. Scriven,

University of Minnesota

Shmuel Winograd,

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Charles A. Zraket,

Mitre Corporation (retired)

Norman Metzger, Executive Director

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Preface

The International Science Lecture Series is a special project of the National Research Council's (NRC) Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications. The series was established in 1990 at the request of the Office of Naval Research (ONR). The purpose of the series is to advance communication and cooperation within the international scientific community. A search committee established by the NRC selects prominent U.S. scientists to lecture in three areas of scientific inquiry: ocean and meteorological sciences, materials science, and information science. The countries in which the lectures are delivered are selected on the basis of consultations with the international scientific community, including the science attach é in U.S. embassies, senior representatives of ONR-Asia and ONR-Europe, and ONR representatives in Washington, D.C. Whenever appropriate, each lecture is followed by discussions with senior government, industrial, and academic representatives of the host country in order to identify opportunities for increased cooperation and collaboration.

Aspects of Weather and Space Weather in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere: The Role of Internal Atmospheric Waves by Michael C. Kelley, professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, is the sixth lecture in the series. The first lecture, The Heard Island Experiment, was presented by Walter H. Munk, Secretary of the Navy Research Chair at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. The second lecture, Fountainhead for New Technologies and New Science, was presented by Rustum Roy, Evan Pugh Professor of Solid State Physics and professor of geochemistry at Pennsylvania State University. The third lecture, Computing, Communication, and the Information Age, was presented by John E. Hopcroft, Joseph C. Ford Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. The fourth lecture, Traffic Management for High-Speed Networks, was presented by H.T. Kung, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Harvard University. The fifth lecture, Implementation Challenges for High-Temperature Composites, was presented by Anthony G. Evans, Gordon McKay Professor of Materials Engineering at Harvard University.

Professor Kelley's lecture tour consisted of a trip to Australia and India during February of 1997. Professor Kelley's lecture was first presented on February 10, 1997, to the High Frequency Radar Division of the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organization (DSTO) in Salisbury, South Australia. Prior to the lecture, Professor Kelley 's delegation met with scientists and engineers from DSTO and toured the facilities of the High Frequency Radar Division. The delegation also toured the facilities of Atmospheric Radar Systems Pty. Ltd., a science and technology consulting firm in Thebarton, South Australia, that designs and manufactures atmospheric radar systems. On the evening

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 1997. Aspects of Weather and Space Weather in the Earth's Upper Atmosphere: The Role of Internal Atmospheric Waves. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5846.
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of February 10, Professor Kelley delivered his lecture to the quarterly meeting of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics at the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, South Australia. On February 11, he presented his lecture at the Physics Colloquium at the University of Adelaide, and later met with students and researchers to discuss their most recent research results.

Professor Kelley's delegation then traveled to India and on February 13, 1997, met with the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Dr. K. Kasturirangan, at the ISRO headquarters in Bangalore, India, to discuss possible collaboration between ISRO scientists and U.S. researchers. Dr. S. Rangarajan, director of the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking, and Command Network (ISTRAC), hosted a tour of the satellite test and integration facility at the ISRO Satellite Center (ISAC). On February 15, 1997, Professor Kelley presented his lecture at the National MST Radar Facility in Gadanki, India. In addition to the scientists and staff of the MST Facility, the audience included a number of scientists from the Physics Research Laboratory in Ahmadabad who had traveled to Gadanki to attend Dr. Kelley's lecture. The director of the National MST Facility, Dr. P.B. Rao, led a tour of the facility, after which Professor Kelley met with scientists from the facility and from the Physics Research Laboratory to discuss recent developments in space weather research.

The Naval Studies Board and the Office of Naval Research would like to thank their gracious hosts in Australia and India: Dr. Bruce Ward, research leader and senior scientist at the High Frequency Radar Division of the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organization; Dr. Ray Protheroe, professor of physics at the University of Adelaide and chair of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Institute of Physics; Dr. P.B. Rao, director of the Indian National MST Radar Facility; and Dr. D. Gupta, senior scientist at the Physics Research Laboratory in Ahmadabad, India.

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