Second NASA grant will fund UT Arlington study of space weather effects ( University of Texas at Arlington ) UT Arlington physicist Yue Deng was awarded $534,000 from NASA to study how space weather events such as solar flares drive vertical winds to affect electrodynamics in the Earth's upper atmosphere. The new four-year grant builds on a $408,000 NASA grant Deng received in 2013 to further develop the Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model or GITM, which is unique ...
Feb. 14, 2014 - EurekAlert!