Advances in Polar Upper
Atmosphere
Research
No. 13
Quantitative
ring current model: Overview and comparison with observations
·································································· Yusuke
Ebihara and Masaki Ejiri········· 1
Statistical analysis of echo power, Doppler velocity and spectral width obtained with the Syowa South HF radar
·············· Masaaki Fukumoto, Nozomu Nishitani, Tadahiko Ogawa,
Natsuo
Sato, Hisao Yamagishi and Akira S. Yukimatu· 37
EISCAT
Svalbard radar-derived atmospheric tidal features in the lower thermosphere as
compared with the numerical modelling ATM2
······················ Takehiko Aso,
Anthony van Eyken and Phil J. S. Williams······· 48
Extremely periodic pulsating aurora observed near L=6: A new type pulsating aurora
················· Natsuo Sato, Takeshi Nagato and Thorsteinn Saemundsson······· 57
Dayside
auroral dynamics observed by the AGO network in Antarctica
·························· Mitsuteru Sato,
Hiroshi Fukunishi, Ryuho Kataoka,
Atsushi
Shono, Louis J. Lanzerotti, Jack H. Doolittle,
········································ Steve B. Mende and Mike Pinnock····························· 67
Camera calibration by an integrating sphere for the auroral tomography observation
··················· Akira Urashima, Takehiko Aso, Masaki Ejiri, Åke Steen,
U.
BrÄndström and B. Gustavsson······· 79
Distortion
of the outer boundary of the closed region in the Tsyganenko magnetic field
model
·································· Takashi Yamamoto,
Shoshi Inoue, Masao Ozaki
and
Nozomu Nishitani······· 89
Latitudinal
structure of the nightside region 1 field-aligned current observed from the
EXOS-D satellite
································ Takashi Yamamoto,
Shoshi Inoue and Masao Ozaki····· 105
Algorithm
for choosing the place for the global Schumann resonance observatory
············································· A. P. Nickolaenko
and Masashi Hayakawa····· 119
Real-time
monitor of geomagnetic field in the near-pole regions as an index of
magnetospheric electric field
············· Tsutomu Nagatsuma,
Takahiro Obara, Hiromitsu Ishibashi,
Kanji
Hayashi and Donald J. McEwen····· 132
A rectified response of daytime radio wave absorption to southward and northward excursions during northward interplanetary magnetic field: A case study
···························· Masanori Nishino,
Nozomu Nishitani, Natsuo Sato,
Hisao
Yamagishi, Mark Lester and Jan A. Holtet····· 139
Detection
of the onset time of Pi 2 pulsations by using wavelet analysis
·················· Kayoko Tsunezawa, Yutaka Tonegawa and Tohru Sakura····· 154
Midsummer
decrease in vertical geomagnetic field at the magnetic pole under strong solar
radiation into the polar ionosphere
··········································································· Naoshi Fukushima····· 162
Improved
scientific ballooning applied to the cryo-sampling experiment at Syowa Station
············· Nobuyuki Yajima, Hideyuki
Honda, Shuhji Aoki, Gen Hashida,
Shinji
Morimoto, Toshinobu Machida and Shoichi Okano····· 167
Measurement
of high-energy cosmic-ray electrons with a Polar Patrol Balloon
································ Shoji Torii,
Takamasa Yamagami, Toshinori Yuda
and
Katsuaki Kasahara····· 176
Automatic
ballast control referring to the inner pressure at the nadir of the balloon
····················· Yoshitaka Saito,
Takamasa Yamagami and Jun Nishimura····· 182
Development
of GMS data aquisition and database systems
···································· Mitsue Den,
Takahiro Obara and Fumihiko Tomita····· 191
Author
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