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Session I.3 on winds, waves and turbulence in the lower and middle atmosphere and thelower thermosphere was convened by W.K. Hocking and M.F. Larsen. This sessionexamined recent developments of studies and observations of dynamics in the middleatmosphere and lower thermosphere. Topics of particular interest included wave-waveinteraction, wave sources and generation mechanisms, wave deposition processes, nonlinearinteractions, wave propagation studies, turbulence anisotropy and turbulent transportprocesses. Correlations of wave events as a function of height, and multi-instrument studieswere presented, and inter-comparisons ofdifferent techniques were considered to beimportant. One area of special interest wasstudies of wave velocity amplitudes andvariability in the region above 90 kmaltitude, <strong>with</strong> particular interest indetermining the frequency of occurrence oflarge amplitude events and large windvelocities (up to 100 m/s and higher) in thisregion. D. Fritts gave the invitedpresentation of P. Franke, who could notattend. This talk expanded the directnumerical simulation of turbulent structures.Investigations on gravity wave break downand the different kinds of instabilities doneShoichiro Fukao during Session I.3.by G. Klaassen were presented by W. Hocking. The invited review on turbulent diffusivitywas presented by R. Wilson, and N. Gavrilov gave an invited talk on gravity wave andturbulence studies and drew attention on the possible relation of middle atmosphere gravitywave activity to El Nino.K. Gage and D. Riggin convened SessionI.4 on meteorological phenomena andapplications.It was concerned <strong>with</strong> recent developmentsin Doppler radar profiling in the lowerneutral atmosphere, especially studies oflower atmospheric phenomena made <strong>with</strong>pro<strong>file</strong>rs in combination <strong>with</strong> otherinstruments during field campaigns. Topicsof interest included the assimilation ofpro<strong>file</strong>r data in meteorological models,quality control of pro<strong>file</strong>r data, operationalnetworks of pro<strong>file</strong>rs and the impact ofK. Krishna Reddy during Session I.4. pro<strong>file</strong>r data on forecasting. Of specialinterest were studies that demonstrate theutility of profiling for quantifying the vertical structure of turbulence, humidity, cloud andprecipitation fields including drop size distributions and their variability. The invited talkswere given by K. Gage (on behalf of S. Koch) on mesoscale analysis and prediction usingwind pro<strong>file</strong>r data and by C. Williams and K. Gage on rain drop size distributions deducedfrom pro<strong>file</strong>r observations.14

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