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We report the first observations of simultaneous high?]latitude interhemispheric F region … neutral wind fields by combining the 630 nm optical measurements from two scanning … Doppler imagers (SDIs) and three Fabry?]Perot interferometers (FPIs) for a period … exceeding 5 h.
We report the first observations of simultaneous high-latitude inter-hemispheric F-region neutral wind fields by combining the 630 nm optical measurements from two scanning Doppler imagers and three Fabry-Perot interferometers for a period exceeding 5 hours on 3 October 2008.
La Trobe University has recently installed a new all-sky imaging Fabry-Perot spectrometer at Mawson Station, Antarctica. It is capable of recording independent spectra from many tens of locations across the sky simultaneously…
All-sky imaging Fabry-Perot spectrometers can provide two dimensional maps of thermospheric wind and temperature fields over a circular region spanning around 1400 km in diameter at F-region heights, or about half this in the E-region.
A simplified three dimensional, time-dependant model of a local region of Earth's thermosphere is being developed to investigate dynamical processes occurring over spatial scales of less than 100 km. Because hydrostatic equilibrium is not enforced in the model…
A new Scanning Doppler Imager (SDI) has been constructed and recently located to Mawson, Antarctica. The SDI is a separation scanning Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) coupled to an all-sky lens and imaging detector. This permits rapid scanning of the interference fringes over most of the sky.
Large-etalon Fabry-Perot Spectrometers (FPS) measure upper atmosphere winds and temperatures by observing spectral profiles of atmospheric emission lines with sufficient resolution to determine the Doppler broadening, from which temperature is deduced…
We report the first observations of simultaneous high-latitude interhemispheric … F-region neutral wind fields by combining the 630 nm optical … measurements from two scanning Doppler imagers (SDI) and three … Fabry-Perot interferometers (FPI) for a period exceeding 5 hours.
We report the first observations of E region neutral wind fields and their interaction … with auroral arcs at mesoscale spatial resolution during geomagnetically quiet conditions at … Mawson, Antarctica. This was achieved by using a scanning Doppler imager…
A new all-sky imaging Fabry-Perot spectrometer … has been installed at Mawson station (67360 S, 62520 E), Antarctica. This instrument is capable of recording independent … spectra from many tens of locations across the sky simultaneously. Useful operation began in March 2007…
Superposed epoch analysis (SEA) was used to examine ionospheric drift velocities measured by a digital … ionosonde located at the mid-latitude station Bundoora (145.11E, 37.71S geographic), near Melbourne. The control times for the SEA were the times of cloud-to-ground (CG)…
Mid-latitude Digisonde Doppler velocities, auroral electrojet (AE) indices and cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning strokes during August 2003–2004 were used to study the perturbations in the F-region … vertical drift associated with terrestrial thunderstorms. A superposed epoch analysis (SEA)…
The Harang reversal is a prominent feature frequently observed in the electric and … magnetic field patterns in the high-latitude auroral zone and plays an important role … in substorm dynamics. A comprehensive set of instruments, including Super Dual Auroral … Radar Network (SuperDARN)…
Bursty bulk flows are understood to be the predominant flux transport mechanism in the … magnetotail.
A magnetic cloud in the solar wind impinged the Earths magnetosphere on the 7th January … 2005. Episodic enhancements in the coupling of solar wind energy initiated a familiar sequence … of Geospace events including a succession of substorms of increasing intensity throughout the … day.
The correct identification of ionospheric echoes and 'ground' or 'sea' echoes is important to a … wide variety of studies using SuperDARN radar data. FITACF correctly distinguishes the … majority of ionospheric and ground echoes…
A new all-sky imaging Fabry-Perot spectrometer has been installed at … Mawson station (67°36' S, 62°52' E), Antarctica. This instrument is capable … of recording independent spectra from many tens of locations across the sky … simultaneously. Useful operation began in March 2007…
Space weather impacts on some important modern technologies, particularly … those that depend on satellites. The La Trobe Space Physics Research Group studies the basic physical causes of space … weather phenomena in geospace, the interface between Earth and interplanetary space.
The dual HF radars comprising the Tasman International … Geophysical Environment Radar (TIGER) system … often observe localized high-velocity F-region plasma flows … (1500 m/s) in the midnight sector (20:00–02:00 MLT) at … magnetic latitudes as low as 3=60 S.
At 08:35 UT on 21 November 2004, the onset of … an interval of substorm activity was captured in the southern … hemisphere by the Far UltraViolet (FUV) instrument on … board the IMAGE spacecraft. This was accompanied by … the onset of Pi2 activity and subsequent magnetic bays…
Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) HF backscatter radaras scan 16 beam directions over a field of view of ~52°. In the common mode of operation, data is collected using 45-km range gates and 7-s integrations on each beam.
Methods of inverting high-frequency radar land and sea backscatter to obtain … ionospheric vertical profiles offer an important means of remote sensing the ionosphere up … to thousands of kilometers from the transmitter/receiver location.