ASIM Research

ASIM research has three themes: Climate processes, the interplay of the atmosphere with the earth's surface and changes to the atmosphere from space processes.

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 * Climate processes
 * Thunderstorms
 * Electrical discharges in the stratosphere and mesosphere
 * X- and Gamma-radiation from thunderstorms
 * Water vapor transport
 * Cloud nucleation
 * Gravity waves
 * Noctilucent clouds
 * The dynamics of the upper atmosphere
 * Earth's surface and the atmosphere
 * Hurricanes
 * Dust storms
 * Volcanoes
 * Forest fires
 * Interactions of space processes with the atmosphere
 * Comets and meteors
 * NO from solar radiation
 * Thunderstorm interactions with the ionosphere and magnetosphere
 * Aurora

Measurements from other satellites and instrumentation on the ground and on aircraft or balloons will also be used.