Space Weather Study Using Multipoint Techniques (eBook)

Cover 1
Contents 12
Preface 6
Opening Address of the COSPAR President to the COSPAR Colloquium on Space Weather Study Using Multi-point Techniques 8
Part I: Keynote Speech 16
Chapter 1. Predicting Geomagnetic Storms as a Space Weather Project 18
Part II: Solar Observations and Modeling Session 36
Chapter 2. Descriptions of Coronal Streamer Structures During the Rising Phase of Cycle 23 38
Chapter 3. Taiwan Oscillation Network: Probing the Solar Interior 46
Chapter 4. Space Weather Study Using Combined Coronagraphic and in Situ Observations 54
Chapter 5. The SECCHI Solar Plasma Imager for STEREO 64
Chapter 6. Tomographic Analysis of Solar Wind Structure Using Interplanetary Scintillation 70
Chapter 7. Polar Plumes in Coronal Expansion 76
Chapter 8. Solar Coronal Heating and Weak Fast Shocks 84
Chapter 9. An Algorithm of Calculation for the Motion of Looplike Coronal Mass Ejections 88
Part III: Interplanetary Observations and Modeling Session 100
Chapter 10. Upstream Shocks and Interplanetary Magnetic Cloud Speed and Expansion: Sun, Wind, and Earth Observations 102
Chapter 11. Electromagnetic Electron and Proton Cyclotron Waves in Geospace: A Cassini Snapshot 112
Chapter 12. Models for the Size and Shape of the Earth’s Magnetopause and Bow Shock 142
Part IV: Magnetospheric Observations and Modeling Session 152
Chapter 13. Interplanetary Shock Effects on the Nightside Auroral Zone, Magnetosphere, and Ionosphere 154
Chapter 14. Development of an Integrated Predictive MHD Space Weather Model from the Solar Surface to the Earths Upper Atmosphere 164
Chapter 15. Substorms and Magnetic Storms From the Satellite Charging Perspective 178
Chapter 16. Propagation of Sudden Impulses in the Magnetosphere: Linear and Nonlinear Waves 190
Chapter 17. Multi-spacecraft Studies in aid of Space Weather Specification and Understanding 196
Part V: Low-Altitude-Satellite Observations and Modeling Session 206
Chapter 18. The Electron Density Distribution in the Polar Cap: Its Variability With Seasons, and its Response to Magnetic Activity 208
Chapter 19. Two-Level Mesopause and its Variations From UARS-HRDI Temperature Data 218
Part VI: Ground-Based Observations and Modeling Session 222
Chapter 20. The Application of High Latitude Ionosphere Radars for Space Weather Research 224
Chapter 21. Magnetospheric Substorms: An Inner-Magnetospheric Modeling Perspective 236
Chapter 22. High-Latitude Electrodynamics from a Multi-Array Nonlinear Geomagnetic Model 246
Chapter 23. Magnetic Impulse Events and Related Pc 1 Waves in the Cusp and LLBL Region Observed by a Ground Magnetometer Network 252
Chapter 24. Simultaneous Ground-based Observations of Electric and Magnetic Field Variations Near the Magnetic Equator for Space Weather Study 258
Chapter 25. Global Positioning System Studies of Ionospheric Irregularities 264
Chapter 26. Equatorial Pc5 Associated With Moving Current Vortices in the High Latitude Ionosphere 270
Chapter 27. System Phase Bias Estimation of the Chung-Li VHF Radar 274
Part VII: ROCSAT Program Session 280
Chapter 28. Effects of Lightning on the Middle and Upper Atmosphere: Some New Results 282
Chapter 29. Fine Structure of Sprites and Proposed Global Observations 290
Chapter 30. Spatial and Temporal Structures of Sprites and Elves Observed by Array Photometers 298
Chapter 31. Observation of Angel Sprites 304
Chapter 32. The Atmospheric Correction Algorithm of ROCSAT-1/OCI Data 310
Chapter 33. First Measurement of Scintillation and Attenuation of 19.5 GHz Beacon Signal for Experimental Communication Payload of ROCSAT-1 316
Chapter 34. A New Method of Retrieving Water Vapor Content Using Ground-Based Radiometer with Single Band 322
Part VIII: COSMIC Research Program Session 328
Chapter 35. Modeling, Tracking and Inverting the Tropospheric Radio Occultation Signals 330
Chapter 36. Active Limb Sounding of Atmospheric Refractivity and dry Temperature Profiles by GPS/MET Occultation 340
Chapter 37. A Study on the COSMIC Electron Density Profile 344
Chapter 38. Space Geodesy and Climate Change Studies Using COSMIC Mission 350
Chapter 39. Global Ionosphere Dynamics Inferred From Topside Sounding 356
Part IX: Summary Session 362
Chapter 40. Does Space Weather Really Matter on the Ground? 364
Author Index 374