Electromagnetic energy deposition rate in the polar upper thermosphere derived from the EISCAT Svalbard radar and CUTLASS Finland radar observations

• Main Authors: Fujiwara, H., Kataoka, R., Suzuki, M., Maeda, S., Nozawa, S., Hosokawa, K., Fukunishi, H., Sato, N., Lester, M.
• Other Authors: Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science, RIKEN - Institute of Physical and Chemical Research Japon (RIKEN), Faculty for the Study of Contemporary Society, Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory Nagoya (STEL), Nagoya University, University of Electro-Communications Tokyo (UEC), National Institute of Polar Research Tokyo (NiPR), Department of Physics and Astronomy Leicester, University of Leicester
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2007
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Svalbard; Pedersen; EISCAT
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00318410; https://hal.science/hal-00318410/document; https://hal.science/hal-00318410/file/angeo-25-2393-2007.pdf

International audience From simultaneous observations of the European incoherent scatter Svalbard radar (ESR) and the Cooperative UK Twin Located Auroral Sounding System (CUTLASS) Finland radar on 9 March 1999, we have derived the height distributions of the thermospheric heating rate at the F regio...