Advances in Polar Upper
Atmosphere Research
No. 15
CONTENTS
Electric fields
and meteor radar wind measurements near 95 km over South Pole
············ ······························ J. M. Forbes, M. J. Jarvis, S.
E. Palo, X. Zhang,
Yu.
I. Portnyagin and N. A. Makarov········· 1
First results of meteor radar lower thermosphere wind measurements
at
Dixon, Arctic (73.5N, 80E)
············ ······················· E. G. Merzlyakov Yu. I. Portnyagin, N. A.
Makarov,
J.
M. Forbes and S. Palo······· 11
First mesopause
temperature measurements using sodium lidar observations in the Antarctic
region
············ ····· Takuya
D.Kawahara, Tsukasa Kitahara, Fumitoshi Kobayashi,
Masaki
Tsutsumi, Yasunori Saito and Akira Nomura······· 23
Seasonal
dependence of the vertical distributions of auroral kilometric radiation sources
and auroral particle acceleration regions observed by the Akebono satellite
············ ····························· Atsushi Kumamoto, Takayuki Ono and Hiroshi
Oya······· 32
Distortion of
the nightside boundary of the gfirmly-closedh region in the 1996 Tsyganenko
magnetic field model
············ ····························· Takashi Yamamoto, Shoshi Inoue and Masao
Ozaki·······
43
Substorm effects on magnetospheric VLF hiss observed by ISIS
satellites
············ ····················································································· Tadanori Ondoh······· 61
Implications of
statistics of near-range Doppler velocity observed with the Syowa East HF radar
············ ························· Tadahiko Ogawa, Nozomu Nishitani, Natsuo
Sato,
Hisao
Yamagishi and Akira Sessai Yukimatu·······
82
Initial results of Syowa MF radar observations in Antarctica
············ ································ Masaki Tsutsumi, Takehiko Aso and Masaki
Ejiri····· 103
Propagation
modes and source locations of the auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) identified
by using the wave distribution function method
············ ························· Akira Hosotani, Takayuki Ono, Atsushi
Kumamoto
and
Hiroshi Oya····· 117
Longitudinal dependence of eastward and westward magnetic variations
at mid-latitudes
············ ················································· Shin'ya Nakano and Toshihiko Iyemori····· 128
New sounding modes for SuperDARN HF radars
································ Akira Sessai Yukimatu, Hisao Yamagishi and
Natsuo Sato·····
135
Review
VLF/LF sounding
of the lower ionosphere to study the role of atmospheric oscillations in the
lithosphere-ionosphere coupling
············· ··································· O. A. Molchanov, M. Hayakawa and K. Miyaki····· 146
Interhemispheric
differences in the HF radar signature of the cusp region: A review through the
study of a case example
············ ···························································· Steve E. Milan and Mark Lester····· 159
Report
Development of an automatic observation system for Fabry-Perot
interferometers
············ ······ Mamoru Ishii, Shoichi Okano, Eiichi Sagawa, Shinfichi Watari,
Hirotaka
Mori, Iwao Iwamoto, Kazumasa Kanda,
Fumihiko
Kamimura and Dai Sakamoto····· 178
Solar wind
dependence of the electron flux variation at geostationary orbit observed by ETS-V
············ ···························· N. Yokoyama, T. Goka, H. Matsumoto, K. Koga,
H. Koshiishi and Y. Kimoto·····193
Note
to contributors··································································································· 201
Author index ············································································································· 203
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