Source: NSF
Award Period: 4/1/97-3/31/98
The agenda for this workshop will also include the analysis and interpretationof the data from the joint experiments on Polar Patrol Balloons 2, 4 and 5. There are at least three studies that are approaching completion and publication. Detailed, nearly final drafts of papers will be ready for review at this workshop. These papers are all at the stage where the quality of the outcome will be significantly improved by the kind of face-to-face discussions and active joint analysis that can only be accomplished in person. The topics of these papers include the events of December 28, 1992, global ionospheric convection and vertical field studies during the joint PPB-ELBBO interval in 1992-1993, and campaign duration averages of the convection electric field sorted as functions of IMF and Kp. Completion of these papers would be a top priority objective for this workshop. We plan to submit these papers either to the Journal of Geophysical Research or to the Journal of Geomagnetism and Geoeletricity.
There are a number of other studies of these data which may be fruitful, but which need to be initiated and developed. One particular topic that willbe addressed to prepare and review a list of intervals of interesting ULF wave activity observed during these flights that need to be studied in more detail. A site visit to Tokai University is planned to conduct these discussions.
We will try to schedule this workshop in conjunction with the Twenty-first Symposium on Coordinated Observations of the Ionosphere and the Magnetosphere in the Polar Regions, which will be held at NIPR in the Fall of 1997. Plans for this symposium are extremely preliminary at this time. Tentitavely, the agenda will include sessions on our joint experiments on the Polar Patrol Balloon Project, on Long Duration Ballooning results in polar regions, on coordinated US-Syowa observations and on future plans. Proceedings of this symposium will be published by NIPR as part of the Proceedings of the NIPR Symposium on Upper Atmospheric Physics.