Survey of conditions for artificial aurora experiments at EISCAT Tromsø using dynasonde data

Source at https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-018-0805-9 . Licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. We report a brief survey on conditions for artificial aurora optical experiments in F region heating with O-mode at the EISCAT Tromsø site using dynasonde data from 2000 to 2017. The results obtained in our survey indica...

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Published in:Earth, Planets and Space
Main Authors: Tsuda, T. T., Rietveld, Michael T, Kosch, Michael J., Oyama, S, Hosokawa, K., Nozawa, Satonori, Kawabata, T, Mizuno, A, Ogawa, Y
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018
Subjects:
VDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400::Physics: 430
VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Fysikk: 430
Artificial aurora
Ionospheric heating
EISCAT
Tromsø
Dynasonde
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10037/14732
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-018-0805-9
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Summary:Source at https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-018-0805-9 . Licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. We report a brief survey on conditions for artificial aurora optical experiments in F region heating with O-mode at the EISCAT Tromsø site using dynasonde data from 2000 to 2017. The results obtained in our survey indicate the following: The possible conditions for conducting artificial aurora experiments are concentrated in twilight hours in both evening and morning, compared with late-night hours; the possible conditions appear in fall, winter, and spring, while there is no chance in summer, and the month-to-month variation among fall, winter, and spring is not clear. The year-to-year variation is well correlated with the solar cycle, and experiments during the solar minimum would be almost hopeless. These findings are useful for planning future artificial aurora optical experiments.

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