Advances in Polar Upper

Atmosphere Research

 

No. 16

 

CONTENTS

 

 

The high-latitude artificial aurora of 21 February 1999: An analysis

············ ······································ M. J. Kosch, M. T. Rietveld, T. K. Yeoman,

                                                                                  K. Cierpka and T. Hagfors········· 1

 

Evaluation of the region 1 field-aligned current from the low-latitude boundary layer using the 1989 Tsyganenko model

············ ····························· Takashi Yamamoto, Masao Ozaki and Shoshi Inoue······· 13

Characteristics of negative values of polar cap index as an indicator of reversed convection

············ ·············································································· Tsutomu Nagatsuma······· 36

On the energy of the poloidal magnetic field near the ionosphere

············ ············ Akimasa Yoshikawa, Masahiro Itonaga and Kiyohumi Yumoto······· 45

 

Comparison of flow angle variations of E-region echo characteristics at VHF and HF

············ ············· R. A. Makarevitch, A. V. Koustov, K. Igarashi, K. Ohtaka,

                                                 T.Ogawa N. Nishitani, N.Sato, H. Yamagishi

                                                                                              and A. S. Yukimatu······· 59

 

E region echoes observed with the Syowa HF radar under disturbed geomagnetic conditions

············ ························· Tadahiko Ogawa, Nozomu Nishitani, Natsuo Sato,

                                                       Hisao Yamagishi and Akira Sessai Yukimatu······· 84

 

A new meridian imaging spectrogarph for the auroral spectroscopy

············ ························· Makoto Taguchi, Shoichi Okano, Takeshi Sakanoi,

                                                Naoko Koizumi, Takehiko Aso and Masaki Ejiri······· 99

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Research Note

 

Polar mesosphere winter echoes during solar proton events

············ ··········· S. Kirkwood, V. Barabash, E. Belova, H. Nilsson, T. N. Rao,

                                                       K. Stebel, A. Osepian and Phillip B. Chilson····· 111

 

SC-triggered plasma waves observed by the Akebono Satellite in the Polar Regions and the Plasmasphere

············ ··································· Atsuki Shinbori, Takayuki Ono and Hiroshi Oya····· 126

 

New model of plasma convection during transpolar arc events

············ ······················ Hitoshi Nakai, Yosuke Kamide and Mitchell Brittnacher····· 136

 

Report

 

New auroral spectrometer using an acousto-optic tunable filter

··········· ··· Kazuo Shiokawa, Yasuo Katoh, Mitsugi Satoh, Tadahiko Ogawa,

                                                                Makoto Taguchi and Hisao Yamagishi····· 146

 

 

Polar Patrol Balloon experiment in Antarctica during 2002-2003

············ ······· Akira Kadokura, Hisao Yamagishi, Natsuo Sato, Masaki Ejiri,

                                    Haruto Hirosawa, Takamasa Yamagami, Shoji Torii,

                                                              Fumio Tohyama, Michio Nakagawa,

                                                                   Toshimi Okada and Edgar A. Bering····· 157

            

Calibration of CRL all-sky imagers using an integrating sphere

··········· ···················· Masa-yuki Yamamoto, Minoru Kubota, Shu Takeshita,

                                         Mamoru Ishii, Yasuhiro Murayama and Masaki Ejiri.····· 173

 

A new method for monitoring and removing SuperDARN radar DC offsets

··········· ·············· Akira Sessai Yukimatu, Masaki Tsutsumi, Hisao Yamagishi

                                                                                                   and Natsuo Sato····· 181

 

Note to contributors··································································································· 193

Author index··············································································································· 195

 

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