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

Interdisciplinary session [IM]
Middle atmosphere and thermosphere

Oral session

Nov. 13 (Wed.) National Institute of Polar Research, 2F Auditorium

Middle atmosphere and thermosphere 1
Chair: Mitsumu Ejiri (NIPR)
9:20-09:40 Variability of clouds in the upper troposphere in the polar region  during stratospheric sudden warming *Masashi Kohma, Kaoru Sato (Univ. of Tokyo)
09:40-10:00 Occurrence characteristics of Mesosphere Summer Echoes observed by the SuperDARN Hokkaido HF radar *Taishi Tsuya, Nozomu Nishitani (STEL), Tadahiko Ogawa (NICT), Masaki Tsutsumi, Akira Sessai Yukimatu (NIPR)
10:00-10:20 Tropopause fold observation by MARA VHF wind-profiler radar and their occurrence rates over the Antarctic station Troll (72°S, 2.5°E) *Maria Mihalikova (Dept. of Earth and Planet. Sci., Univ. of Tokyo), Sheila Kirkwood (Swedish Inst. of Space Phys.)
10:20-10:40 The seasonal variation and the short-term variation of Nitric oxide in the MLT region at Syowa staion *Yasuko Isono, Akira Mizuno, Tomoo Nagahama, Yoshizumi Miyoshi (STEL, Nagoya Univ.), Takuji Nakamura, Ryuho Kataoka, Masaki Tsutsumi, Mitsumu K Ejiri (NIPR), Hitoshi Fujiwara (Seikei Univ.) and Hiroyuki Maezawa (Osaka Pref. Univ.)
10:40-10:55 Coffee break
Chair: Hitoshi Fujiwara (Seikei Univ.)
10:55-11:15 Multi-year Analysis of Atmospheric Gravity Waves in the Polar Mesosphere and Thermosphere *Kim Nielsen, Michael Buzzbe (Dept. of Phys., Utah Valley Univ.), Michael Negale, Dominique Pautet, Michael Taylor (Dept. of Phys., Utah State Univ.), Richard Collins (Geophys. Inst., Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks), and James Russell III (Cntr for Atmos. Sci., Hampton Univ.)
11:15-11:35 Calculation of gravity wave drag distribution by three-dimensional propagation *Arata Amemiya, Kaoru Sato (Univ. of Tokyo)
11:35-11:55 On Three-dimensional Structure on the Stratopause Using a Gravity Wave Resolving GCM *Akihiro Masuda, Kota Okamoto, Kaoru Sato (Univ. of Tokyo)
11:55-12:15 The Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL): A Scientific Facility for monitoring atmospheric change in the Canadian High Arctic *William E. Ward (Univ. of New Brunswick), James R. Drummond (Dalhousie Univ.) and the CANDAC Science Team

Oral session

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

Middle atmosphere and thermosphere 2
Chair: Hidehiko Suzuki (Rikkyo Univ.)
13:30-14:00 Observations of Polar Dynamics in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere from the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory *William E. Ward, Samuel K. Kristoffersen, Chris Vail (Dept. of Phys., Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada), Alan H. Manson (ISAS, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada) and Marianna G. Shepherd (CRESS, York Univ., Toronto, Canada)
14:00-14:20 Variations of neutral temperature and winds in the polar mesosphere and lower thermosphere above Tromsø *Satonori Nozawa (STEL), Takuya D. Kawahara (Shinshu Univ.), Takuo Tsuda (NIPR), Norihito Saito (RIKEN), Masaki Tsutsumi (NIPR), Satoshi Wada (RIKEN), Hitoshi Fujiwara (Seikei Univ.), Toru Takahashi, Tetsuya Kawabata (STEL), Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR), Shin-ichiro Oyama (STEL), Chris Hall, Asgeir Brekke (Univ. Tromsoe), and Ryoichi Fujii (STEL)
14:20-14:40 Effects of the recent global warming on the general circulation in the winter stratosphere *Yasunobu Miyoshi (Kyushu Univ.), Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR), Jinro Ukita (Niigata Univ.), Tetsu Nakamura, Koji Yamazaki (Hokkaido Univ.), Meiji Honda and Katsushi Iwamoto (Niigata Univ.)
14:40-15:00 Investigating Mesospheric Gravity Wave Dynamics and Temperature Variability at Polar Latitudes *M.J. Taylor, P.-D. Pautet, Y. Zhao, W.R. Pendleton Jr (USU), D. Fritts, B.P. Williams, K. Bossert (GATS), G. Stober and P. Hoffmann (IAP)
15:00-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-16:45 OS session oral presentation
17:00-18:00 IM/OS sessions joint poster session (1) (IM core time) (NIPR, 2F Lounge)
18:00-20:00
IM/OS session joint party (NIPR, 4F Lounge)

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

13:00-14:20 IM/OS session joint poster session (2) (OS core time) (NIPR, 2F Lounge)

Poster session

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

Poster board size : H 1090 x W 795 mm

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) (NIPR, 2F Lounge)
This time window is core time for IM session. But posters for OS sessoin are also welcome to be displayed and explained.
Nov.15 (Fri)
13:00-14:20
IM/OS sessions joint poster session (2) (NIPR, 2F Lounge)
This time window is core time for OS session. But posters for IM sessoin are also welcome to be displayed and explained.
IM-P1 Relationship between aurora and airglow at high-latitudes measured with IMAP/VISI *Takeshi Sakanoi, Shinpei Takasaki (Tohoku Univ.), IMAP Science Team
IM-P2 Thermospheric vertical wind and temperature observed by a Fabry-Perot imager *Kousuke Nakazaki, Makoto Taguchi (Rikkyo Univ.), Yasunobu Ogawa (NIPR), Hidehiko Suzuki (Rikkyo Univ.)
IM-P3 On sodium layer variation by auroral particle precipitation *T. T. Tsuda (NIPR), S. Nozawa (Nagoya U.), T. D. Kawahara (Shinshu U.), T. Kawabata (Nagoya U.),N. Saito, S. Wada (RIKEN), Y. Ogawa (NIPR), S. Oyama (Nagoya U.), C. M. Hall (U. of Tromsø), M. Tsutsumi, M. K. Ejiri (NIPR), S. Suzuki, T. Takahashi (Nagoya U.), and T. Nakamura (NIPR)
IM-P4 Development and application of a new statistical analysis for deriving horizontal phase velocity distribution of gravity waves from airglow imaging at Syowa Station (69S, 39E), Antarctica T.Matsuda (SOKENDAI), T.Nakamura , M.K.Ejiri , T.Tsutsumi (NIPR) , K.Shiokawa (STEL) , Y.Tomikawa (NIPR)
IM-P5 Polar Mesosphere Winter Echo(PMWE) observed by PANSY radar: Implications of highly energetic precipitating particles *Takanori Nishiyama (NIPR), Kaoru Sato (Earth and Planet. Sci., Univ. of Tokyo), Toru Sato (Comm. and Comp. Eng., Kyoto Univ.), Masaki Tsutsumi (NIPR), Masashi Kohma (Earth and Planet. Sci., Univ. of Tokyo), Takuji Nakamura, Mutsumi Ejiri, and Takuo Tsuda (NIPR)
IM-P6 Studies of the thermosphere and ionosphere variations in the polar region with EISCAT radar observations and GCM simulations *Hitoshi Fujiwara (Seikei Univ), Satonori Nozawa (STEL/Nagoya Univ), Yasunobu Ogawa, Ryuho Kataoka (NIPR), Yasunobu Miyoshi (Kyushu Univ), Hidekatsu Jin, Hiroyuki Shinagawa (NICT)
IM-P7 Results of test observations of potassium density profiles over Japan by a tunable resonance scattering lidar *Mitsumu K. Ejiri, Takuo T. Tsuda, Takanori Nishiyama (NIPR), Makoto Abo (System Design, Tokyo Metro. Univ.), Masaki Tsutsumi, Yoshihiro Tomikawa (NIPR), Takuya Kawahara (Fac. of Eng., Shinshu Univ.), Takuji Nakamura (NIPR)
IM-P8 Observations of three-dimensional structures of MLT wind fields based on meteor echo measurements using the PANSY radar *Masaki Tsutsumi (NIPR), Kaoru Sato (Univ. of Tokyo), Toru Sato (Kyoto Univ.), Takuji Nakamura (NIPR), Akinori Saito (Kyoto Univ.), Yoshihiro Tomikawa, Koji Nishimura, Hisao Yamagishi, Takashi Yamanouchi (NIPR)
IM-P9 Development of a pressure tunable etalon unit for Syowa Rayleigh Raman lidar *Hidehiko Suzuki (Rikkyo Univ.), Akihiro Yamamoto, Takuya D. Kawahara (Shinshu Univ.), Makoto Abo (Tokyo Metro. Univ.), Mistumu K. Ejiri, and Takuji Nakamura (NIPR)
IM-P10 Ozone and Temperature Lidar observations in mid-latitude NDACC station at Río Gallegos (51°36‘ S, 69° 19‘ W), Patagonia Argentina *Jacobo Salvador,P. F. Orte, E. Wolfram, R. D’Elia, D. Bulnes (CEILAP), J. Quiroga (FBSC),O.Sofia (UNPA), T. Nagahama, Y. Kojima, T. Kuwahara (STEL- Nagoya Univ.),H. Nakane (Kochi Univ.), H. Maezawa (Osaka Pref. Univ.), E. Quel (CEILAP), A. Mizuno (STEL-Univ. Nagoya)
IM-P11 Control of interplanetary solar wind sector polarity on the ionosphere Jing Liu, Libo Liu, Biqiang Zhao, Weixing Wan (Beijing Natl Obs. of Space Env., Inst. of Geology and Geophys., Chinese Acad. of Sci., China)
IM-P12 Mesospheric Inversion Layers and Their Effect on Gravity Wave Propagation over Polar Regions Michael L. Buzbee, Kim Nielsen (Dept. of Phys., Utah Valley Univ.,U.S.A), and James Russell III (Cntr for Atmos. Sci., Hampton Univ., U.S.A)