Plasma structure within poleward-moving cusp/cleft auroral transients: EISCAT Svalbard radar observations and an explanation in terms of large local time extent of events

• Main Authors: M. Lockwood, I. W. McCrea, Stephen E. Milan, J. Moen, J. C. Cerisier, A. Thorolfsson
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Uncategorized; Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Geosciences; Multidisciplinary; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Geology; ionosphere; polar ionosphere; magnetospheric physics; magnetopause; cusp and boundary layers; solar wind-magnetosphere interactions; INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC-FIELD; FLUX-TRANSFER EVENTS; PULSED MAGNETOPAUSE RECONNECTION; FRICTIONAL HEATING EVENTS; HIGH-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE; CUSP ION PRECIPITATION; CUTLASS FINLAND RADAR; DAYSIDE IONOSPHERE; SOLAR-WIND; POLAR CUSP; Lockwood; Ny-Ålesund; Svalbard; EISCAT; Ny Ålesund
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We report high-resolution observations of the southward-IMF cusp/cleft ionosphere made on December 16th 1998 by the EISCAT (European incoherent scatter) Svalbard radar (ESR), and compare them with observations of dayside auroral luminosity, as seen at a wavelength of 630 nm by a meridian scanning ph...