Concluding remarks, session 4: Atmospheric dynamics

Meteorologists used to criticize those who described themselves as aeronomers or ionospheric physicists, pointing out their neglect of neutral air motions in calculating ionospheric behavior. This situation has changed dramatically in the last few years. At this meeting, the effects of neutral air motions were considered either implicitly or explicitly in over one third of the papers presented. Some of the topics that explicitly touched on neutral atmosphere dynamics are described in the following paragraphs.