Welcome to the American
SCOPE: The committee encourages and
supports the exchange of information and furtherance of knowledge on the
atmospheric and space environments and all relationships and interactions
between aerospace technological systems and atmospheric and space environments.
The committee is made up of approximately
35 dedicated professionals who encourages and supports the exchange of
information and furtherance of knowledge concerning all relationships and
interactions between aerospace technological systems and the atmospheric
environment.
The primary objective of the committee is to advance the technology and
provide the forum for the interchange of scientific ideas and technology in the
areas of atmospheric and space environment as related to aeronautical, space
and missile systems.
This committee benefits from the ideas and
energies of its diverse membership, and is always looking for candidates that
share our enthusiasm for new opportunities and challenges. Individuals with interest
in the following areas are encouraged to APPLY FOR
MEMBERSHIP in the
Atmospheric and Space Environment Technical Committee: Aeronautical
& Space Operations,
Aircraft Icing, Satellite Systems and
Instrumentation, and
On-Orbit Environments.
ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE ENVIRONMENT
Our concerns are two-fold: how the
aerospace environment affects aviation and space vehicle design and operations
and how those operations in turn affect the aerospace environment. We are
especially interested in the impact of, for example, icing, turbulence, and
severe weather on aviation and space vehicle operations, space plasma
environment and space weather on space systems, aviation-related pollution on
the atmosphere, and aerospace operations on potential modification of the atmosphere.
Our committee members have expertise in
meteorology and climatology as applied to aviation and aerospace vehicle
atmospheric design and operations and in space physics as applied to spacecraft
interactions and design. Fields of competence include: atmospheric physics and
chemistry, space physics and chemistry, aeronomy,
space weather, radiative energy transfer, severe
storm morphology, atmospheric and space environment modeling, planetary
atmospheres, meteorological measurement systems, satellite applications,
atmospheric predictions, and the effects of the aerospace environment on
aircraft and spacecraft performance.
Comments and questions can be directed to
our Chairman, Dale Ferguson.