National Institute of Polar Research
The 4th Symposium on Polar Science (12-15 November, 2013)

Ordinary session [OS]
Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences

Oral session

Nov. 14 (Thu.) National Institute of Polar Research, 2F Auditorium

Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences - 1. Aurora (1)
Chair: Ryuho Kataoka (NIPR)
15:15-15:45 Long-term optical studies of the aurora using the MIRACLE cameras *Daniel Whiter, Noora Partamies (FMI)
15:45-16:05 Stereoscopic determination of all-sky altitude map of aurora using two ground-based Nikon DSLR cameras *Ryuho Kataoka (NIPR), Y. Miyoshi, K. Shigematsu (STEL), D. Hampton (UAF), Y. Mori (Shizuoka Univ), T. Kubo, A. Yamashita (Tokyo Univ), M. Tanaka (Tokyo Tech), T. Takahei (Orihalcon Tec), T. Nakai (Nagoya Univ), and H. Miyahara (MAU)
16:05-16:25 Altitude variation of aurora breakups during a magnetic storm on March 17, 2013 *Kai Shigematsu, Yoshizumi Miyoshi (STEL, Nagoya U.), Ryuho Kataoka, Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR), Masayuki Tanaka (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.), Atsushi Yamashita (U. of Tokyo), Yoshiki Mori (Shizuoka U.), Takayuki Kubo (U. of Tokyo), Don Hampton (U. of Alaska, Fairbanks), and Shinobu Machida (STEL, Nagoya U.)
16:25-16:45 Substorm onset process: Ignition of auroral acceleration and related substorm phases *Akira Morioka (Tohoku Univ.), Yoshizumi Miyoshi (Nagoya Univ.), Yasumasa Kasab (Tohoku Univ.), Natsuo Sato, Akira Kadokura (NIPR), Hiroaki Misawa (Tohoku Univ.), Yukinaga Miyashita (Nagoya Univ.)
17:00-18:00 IM/OS sessions joint poster session (1) (IM core time) (NIPR, 2F Lounge)
18:00-20:00
OS/IM session joint party (NIPR, 4F Lounge)

Oral session

Nov. 15 (Fri) National Institute of Polar Research, 2F Auditorium

Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences - 1. Aurora (2)
Chair: Ryuho Kataoka (NIPR)
9:00-09:20 Formal theory of the substorm Takashi Tanaka (Emeritus Prof., Kyushu-u)
9:20-09:40 Conductivity anomaly and field line cavity related to auroral arc dynamics *Yasutaka Hiraki, Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR)
9:40-10:00 Tomographic inversion analysis of auroral surges observed in the Northern Scandinavia *Yoshimasa Tanaka, Yasunobu Ogawa, Akira Kadokura, Hisao Yamagishi, Hiroshi Miyaoka (NIPR), Björn Gustavsson (Univ. of Tromsø), Noora Partamies, Daniel Whiter (FMI), Urban Brändström (IRF)
10:00-10:20 Monochromatic Pc2-3 pulsations observed at post midnight sector in the magnetosphere *Natsuo Sato, Akira Kadokura, Yoshimasa Tanaka (NIPR), Toru Sakurai (Tokai Univ))
10:20-10:35 Coffee break
10:35-10:55 Ground-based, Sounding Rocket and Satellite Observations of the Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere in the Arctic Bob McCoy (Geophys. Inst., Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks)
Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences - 2. Ionosphere and Magnetosphere (1)
Chair: Yuto Kato (Tohoku Univ.)
10:55-11:15 Numerical simulation of the temperature gradient drift instability in the polar ionosphere *Aya Okada, Satoshi Taguchi, Mitsuru Matsumura (Univ. of Electro-Comm.)
11:15-11:35 Temporal and spatial evolution of storm-time ionospheric currents as seen in geomagnetic field variations *Atsuki Shinbori (RISH Kyoto Univ.), Tomoaki Hori (STEL Nagoya Univ.), Yoshimasa Tanaka (NIPR), Yukinobu Koyama (WDC Kyoto Univ.), Takashi Kikuchi (RISH Kyoto Univ.), Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT)
11:35-11:55 The mechanism driving the magnetosphere-ionosphere convection *Shigeru Fujita (Meteorol. Col.), Takashi Tanaka (Kyushu Univ.)
11:55-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:20 IM/OS session joint poster session (2) (OS core time) (NIPR, 2F Lounge)
Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences - 2. Ionosphere and Magnetosphere (2)
Chair: Yuto Kato (Tohoku Univ.)
14:20-14:40 Statistical properties of mid-latitude Pc5 waves observed by the SuperDARN Hokkaido HF radar *Toshinori Matsushita, Kanako Seki, Nozomu Nishitani, Tomoaki Hori, Mariko Teramoto, Takashi Kikuchi, Yoshizumi Miyoshi (STEL)
14:40-15:00 Ion's acceleration in near earth plasma sheet *Yohei Nakayama, Yusuke Ebihara (RISH), Takashi Tanaka (Kyushu Univ.)
Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences - 3. New observational technique and future plan
Chair: Takanori Nishiyama (NIPR)
15:00-15:20 SuperDARN Hokkaido West radar *Nozomu Nishitani (Nagoya Univ.), SuperDARN Hokkaido East / West radar grp.
15:20-15:40 Upgrading the sodium lidar at Tromsø for 3-D observations: precision experiment *Takuya D. Kawahara, Wataru Muranaka, Hikaru Fukasawa (Shinshu Univ.), Satonori Nozawa (STE Lab., Nagoya Univ.)
15:40-15:55 Coffee break
15:55-16:15 Measurements of stratospheric ozone, atmospheric gravity wave, and nitrogen dioxide with balloon-born optical ozone sensor *Isao Murata (Tohoku Univ.), Kaoru Sato (Univ. Tokyo), Yoshihiro Tomikawa (NIPR), Katsuyuki Noguchi (Nara Women’s Univ.), and Masaki Tsutsumi (NIPR)
16:15-16:35 Geospace Exploration ERG project *Yoshizumi Miyoshi (STEL, Nagoya Univ), Takayuki Ono (Tohoku Univ), Kazuo Shiokawa (STEL, Nagoya Univ), Takeshi Takashima, Kazushi Asamura (ISAS/JAXA), Masafumi Hirahara (STEL, Nagoya Univ), Yasumasa Kasaba (Tohoku Univ), Ayako Matsuoka (ISAS/JAXA), Hirotsugu Kojima (RISH, Kyoto Univ), Kanako Seki (STEL, Nagoya Univ), Masaki Fujimoto (ISAS/JAXA), ERG proj. grp.
16:35-16:55 Water Vapor Atmosphere of Super Earths by Antarctic Infrared Telescope *Takashi Ichikawa (Tohoku Univ.), Norio Narita, Akihiko Fukui and Yasunori Hori (Natl Astro. Observertory)

Poster session

Nov. 14 (Thu.)-15(Fri.) National Institute of Polar Research, 2F Lounge

Posters for both IM and OS sessions can be displayed between 13:30 on 14th and 15:55 on 15th (end of last coffee break in OS sessions on 15th).

Nov.14 (Thu)
17:00-18:00
IM/OS sessions joint poster session (1) (IM core time) (NIPR, 2F Lounge)
Nov.15 (Fri)
13:00-14:20
IM/OS session joint poster session (2) (OS core time) (NIPR, 2F Lounge)
OS-P1 Fireball and meteor event 20130824190218UTC’Pilis’ *Vizi P. (MTA Wigner RCP), Berczi, Sz. (A ötvös Univ.), Gucsik A. (Konkoly Thege Miklos Astro. Inst.), Hegedus T. (Baja Astro. Obs., Hungary); Lukács B. (MTA Wigner RCP), Biro Zs., Molnar K., Tepliczky I. (MCSE Hungarian Astro. Assoc., Hungary)
OS-P2 Ionospheric scintillation measured by closely-spaced GNSS receivers in Tromsoe, Norway *Yusaku Ito, Yuichi Otsuka, Kazuo Shiokawa (STEL, Nagoya Univ.), Keisuke Hosokawa (UEC), Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR)
OS-P3 Properties of chorus generation process and periodicities of pulsating aurora *Yuto Katoh (Tohoku Univ.), Yoshiharu Omura (Kyoto Univ.)
OS-P4 A Study on Fluctuations of Atmospheric Electricity and Geomagnetid Field in Polar Region *Yasuhiro Minamoto (KMO), Akira Kadokura (NIPR) and Masashi Kamogawa (TGU)
OS-P5 Polarization features of MF/HF auroral radio emissions emanating from the topside ionosphere *Yuka Sato (NIPR), Takayuki Ono, Atsushi Kumamoto (Tohoku Univ.)
OS-P6 Structuring of onset arcs and background electric field changes *Keisuke Hosokawa (UEC), Yasutaka Hiraki, Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR), Kaori Sakaguchi (NICT)
OS-P7 Characteristics between pulsating aurora, energetic electron precipitation and chorus emissions observed at Syowa Station: A case study on 17 May 2007 *Hiroyasu Tadokokoro (Tokyo Univ. of Tech.), Mitsunori Ozaki (Kanazawa Univ.), Yuto Katoh (Tohoku Univ.), Yoshizumi Miyoshi (Nagoya Univ.), Hisao Yamagishi, Akira Kadokura, Yoshimasa Tanaka (NIPR)
OS-P8 Auroral Optical Observations at Syowa-Iceland Conjugate Stations during Whole Year *Akira Kadokura (NIPR), Tetsuo Motoba (JHU/APL), Keisuke Hosokawa (Univ. of of Electro-Comm.), Makoto Taguchi (Rikkyo Univ.), Natsuo Sato (NIPR)
OS-P9 Multi-timescale statistical analysis of ionospheric trough with long-term EISCAT dataset *Tetsuro Ishida (NIPR/SOKENDAI), Yasunobu Ogawa, Akira Kadokura (NIPR), Ingemar Häggström (EISCAT Headquarters)
OS-P10 Statistical characteristics of medium-scale traveling ionospheric disturbances observed by an airglow imager at Syowa Station, Antarctica *Takeshi Minoura, Shin Suzuki, Kazuo Shiokawa, Yuichi Otsuka (Nagoya Univ. STEL), Mitsumu Ejiri, Takuji Nakamura (NIPR)
OS-P11 Occurrence characteristics of subauroral westward plasma flows observed by SuperDARN Hokkaido HF radar *Hiroki Nagano, Nozomu Nisitani, Tomoaki Hori (Nagoya Univ. STElab)
OS-P12 Relativistic electron precipitations in association with diffuse aurora: Conjugate observations of SAMPEX and all sky TV camera at Syowa station *Satoshi Kurita (Tohoku Univ.), Akira Kadokura (NIPR), Yoshizumi Miyoshi (Nagoya Univ.), Akira Morioka (Tohoku Univ.), Yuka Sato (NIPR), Hiroaki Misawa (Tohoku Univ.)
OS-P13 Optimization of Control Parameters for Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Process by Using the Ionospheric Convection *Satoko Saita (ROIS), Shigeru Fujita (Meteorol. Col.), Akira Kadokura (NIPR), Takashi Tanaka (Kyushu Univ.), Akira Sessai Yukimatu, Yoshimasa Tanaka (NIPR), Ohtani Shinichi (JPU/APL), Takeshi Murata (NICT), and Tomoyuki Higuchi (ISM)
OS-P14 Latitudinal dependence of Pi2 frequencies observed with the mid-latitude SuperDARN radar in North America *Mariko Teramoto (JAXA, ISAS), John M. Ruohoniemi, Nathaniel A Frissell, Evan G. Thomas (Virginia Tech)
OS-P15 Long-term spectral observations of aurora and airglow in Longyearbyen, Svalbard *Yasunobu Ogawa , Hiroshi Miyaoka (NIPR) , Takeshi Sakanoi (Tohoku Univ) , Shin Suzuki (STEL, Nagoya Univ) , Akira Kadokura (NIPR) , and Makoto Taguchi (Rikkyo Univ)
OS-P16 Role of plasma convection in relation to pressure gradient-driven Birkeland currents Masakazu Watanabe (Kyushu Univ.)
OS-P17 A Study on Variations of Baseline Values of Geomagnetic Field Observations at Syowa Station *Shin Arita, Tomofumi I, Kosuke Takahashi, Yasuhiro Minamoto (JMA), Akira Kadokura (NIPR)
OS-P18 Toward identifying the 2D plasmapause location by using magnetic pulsations observed by the SuperDARN Hokkaido Radar *Hideaki Kawano (ICSWSE), Akira Sessai Yukimatu, Yoshimasa Tanaka (NIPR), Satoko Saita (ROIS), Nozomu Nishitani and Tomoaki Hori (STEL)
OS-P19 Test Observation of VLF Natural Radio Emission Using New Logger System *Masaki Okada, Hisao Yamagishi (NIPR)
OS-P20 Relationships of upper atmosphere phenomena between polar and geomagnetic anomaly region Kazuo Makita (Takushoku Univ.)
OS-P21 SuperDARN Syowa SENSU high temporal and spatial resolution technique: current status and the future perspective Akira Sessai Yukimatu (NIPR/SOKENDAI)
OS-P22 SuperDARN storm trigger mode: improvement of triggering method Akira Sessai Yukimatu (NIPR/SOKENDAI)
OS-P23 Observation of Gamma-Rays from relativistic electron precipitation with Balloon Experiment around the Polar regions *T.Tanimori, H.Kubo (Kyoto U.), K. Miuchi (Kobe U.), J.D.Parker, S.Komura, S. Iwaki, T.Sawano, S.Nakamura, K Nakamura, Y. Matsuoka, Y.Mizumura, Mizumoto, M.Oda, S.Sonoda (Kyoto U.), A.Takada (Kyoto U./RISH), D.Tomono (Kyoto U.), E.Trunen (Sodankylä Geophys. Obs., U. of Oulu, Finland), and M. Yamauchi (IRF)
OS-P24 Intercomparison of ionospheric observations obtained by 10C-type ionosonde and by FMCW-type ionosondes at Syowa station, Antarctica ? Part.3 - *Tsutomu Nagatsuma, Hideaki Kitauchi, Hiromitsu Ishibashi, Hisao Kato (NICT)
OS-P25 Neural Network based Ionsopheric Tomography *Katsumi Hattori, Shinji Hirooka, Takashi Ichikawa (Chiba Univ.)
OS-P26 Development of a Self-Calibrating, Highly Sensitive LF Crossed-Loop Antenna and its Application *Hideaki Kitauchi (NICT), Kenro Nozaki (SED), Hiroyuki Ito (NICT), Takashi Koike (SAMPA), Shigeru Tsuchiya, Kuniyasu Imamura, Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT)
OS-P27 Development of Potassium Vapor Laser for Resonance Scattering Lidar *Makoto Abo, Natsumi Miura, Chikao Nagasawa (Tokyo Metro. Univ.)
OS-P28 Recent progress of EISCAT_3D *Hiroshi Miyaoka (NIPR), Satonori Nozawa (STEL/Nagoya U.), Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR), Shinichiro Oyama (STEL/Nagoya U.), Takuji Nakamura (NIPR) and Ryoichi Fujii (STEL/Nagoya U.)
OS-P29 Accuracy Enhancement of Wind Velocity Estimation for PANSY Radar *Koji Nishimura (NIPR), Toru Sato (Kyoto U), Kaoru Sato (U Tokyo) , Masaki Tsutsumi (NIPR), Taishi Hashimoto (Kyoto U), and Takuji Nakamura (NIPR)
OS-P30 Development of Unmanned Aurora Imager for Antarctica *Hisao Yamagishi, Akira Kadokura, Hiroshi Miyaoka, Okada Masaki, Akira S. Yukimatu, Yasunobu Ogawa, Yoshimasa Tanaka (NIPR)
OS-P31 Simultaneous observation at conjugate points (Iceland-Syowa station) and satellites for wave particle interactions Reiko Nomura (IGEP), *Hisao Yamagishi (NIPR)