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Primary Publications

Journal Publications

Published

Torr, M., D. G. Torr, M. Zukic, R. B. Johnson, J. Ajello, P. Banks, K. Clark, K. Cole, C. Keffer, G. Parks, B. Tsurutani, and J. Spann, A far ultraviolet imager for the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Mission, Space Science Review, 71, 329-383, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1995.

Brittnacher, M., R. Elsen, G. Parks, L. J. Chen, G. Germany, and J. Spann, A dayside auroral energy deposition case study using the Polar Ultraviolet Imager, Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 991-994, 1997.

Doe, R. A., J. D. Kelly, D. Lummerzheim, G. K. Parks, M. Brittnacher, G. A. Germany, and J. F. Spann, Initial comparison of POLAR UVI and Sondrestrom IS radar estimates for auroral electron energy flux, Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 999-1002, 1997.

Germany, G. A., G. K. Parks, M. Brittnacher, J. Cumnock, D. Lummerzheim, J. F. Spann, L. J. Chen, P. G. Richards, and F. J. Rich, Remote determination of auroral energy characteristics during substorm activity on March 27, 1996, Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 995-998, 1997.

Lummerzheim, D., M. Brittnacher, D. Evans, G. A. Germany, G. K. Parks, M. H. Rees, and J. F. Spann, High time resolution study of the hemispheric power carried by energetic electrons into the ionosphere during the May 19/20, 1996 auroral activity, Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 987-990, 1997.

Brittnacher, M., J. Spann, G. Parks, and G. Germany, Auroral observations by the Polar Ultraviolet Imager UVI, Advances in Space Research, 20, 1037-1042, 1997.

Liou, K., P. T. Newell, C.-I. Meng, A. T. Y. Lui, M. Brittnacher, and G. Parks, Dayside auroral activity as a possible precursor of substorm onsets: A survey using Polar ultraviolet imagery, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 19835, 1997.

Parks, G. K., M. Brittnacher, L. J. Chen, R. K. Elsen, M. McCarthy, G. Germany, and J. Spann, Does the UVI on Polar detect cosmic snowballs?, Geophysical Research Letters, 24, 3109, 1997.

Liou, K., P. T. Newell, C.-I. Meng, M. Brittnacher, and G. Parks, Synoptic auroral distribution: A survey using Polar ultraviolet imagery, Journal of Geophysical Research, 102, 27197, 1997.

Parks, G. K., M. Brittnacher, R. K. Elsen, M. McCarthy, J. M. O'Meara, G. Germany, and J. Spann, Comparison of dark pixels observed by VIS and UVI in dayglow images, Geophysical Research Letters,25, 3063, 1998.

Liou, K., P. T. Newell, C.-I. Meng, M. Brittnacher and G. Parks, Characteristics of the Solar Wind Controlled Auroral Emissions, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 17543, 1998.

Chua, D., M. Brittnacher, G. Parks, G. Germany, J. Spann, A new auroral feature: The nightside gap, Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 3747, 1998.

Lui, A. T. Y., K. Liou, P. T. Newell, C.-I. Meng, S.-I. Ohtani, T. Ogino, S. Kokubun, M. J. Brittnacher, and G. K. Parks, Plasma and magnetic flux transport associated with auroral breakups, Geophysical Research Letters, 25, 4059-4062, 1998.

P. T. Newell, K. Liou, C.-I. Meng, M. Brittnacher, and G. Parks, Dynamics of double-theta aurorae: Polar UVI study of January 10-11, 1997, Journal of Geophysical Research, 104, 95-104, 1999.

Accepted

Germany, G. A., G. K. Parks, M. J. Brittnacher, J. F. Spann, J. Cumnock, D. Lummerzheim, and P. G. Richards, Global Auroral Remote Sensing Using GGS UVI Images, AGU Monograph "Encounter Between Global Observations and Models in the ISTP Era", J. Horwitz, D. Gallagher, and B. Peterson, ed., in press, 1997.

Elsen, R. K., R. M. Winglee, J. F. Spann, G. A. Germany, M. Brittnacher, and G. K. Parks, The auroral oval boundaries on January 10, 1997: A comparison of global magnetospheric simulations with UVI images, Geophysical Research Letters, December 1997.

Germany, G. A., G. K. Parks, H. Ranganath, R. Elsen, P. G. Richards, W. Swift, J. F. Spann, M. Brittnacher, Analysis of auroral morphology: Substorm precursor and onset on January 10, 1997, Geophysical Research Letters, November 1997.

Spann, Jr., J. F., G. A. Germany, R. Elsen, M. J. Brittnacher, G. K. Parks, Initial response of the aurora to the January 10, 1997 magnetic cloud, Geophysical Research Letters, October 1997.

Sitar, R. J., C. R. Clauer, J. B. Baker, A. J. Ridley, J. A. Cumnock, V. O. Papitashvili, G. A. Germany, J. F. Spann, M. J. Brittnacher, and G. K. Parks, Multi-instrument analysis of a traveling convection vortex event on July 24th 1996 coordinated with the Polar UVI, Journal of Geophysical Research, August 1997.

M. Brittnacher, M. Fillingim, G. Parks, G. Germany, and J. Spann, Polar cap area and boundary motion during substorms, Journal of Geophysical Research, in press, 1998.

Submitted

V. A. Sergeev, K. Liou, C.-I. Meng, P. T. Newell, M. Brittnacher, G. Parks, and G. D. Reeves, Development of auroral streamers in association with localized impulsive injections to the inner magnetotail, submitted to Geophysical Research Letters, September, 1998.

M. Brittnacher, M. Wilber, M. Fillingim, D. Chua, G. Parks, J. Spann, and G. Germany, Global auroral response to a solar wind pressure pulse, submitted to Advances in Space Research, December, 1998.

Conference Proceedings

Accepted

Germany, G. A., P. G. Richards G. K. Parks, M. Brittnacher, and J. F. Spann, "Global auroral imaging as a remote diagnostic of geospace", AIAA 97-2417, 8 pp., American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston, VA, 1997.

H. Laakso, M. Brittnacher, H. Opgenoorth, T. Pulkkinen, and A. Viljanen, Auroral disturbances produced by IMF fluctuations, Proc. Fourth International Conf. on Substorms, 1998.

G. K. Parks, L. J. Chen, M. Brittnacher, M. McCarthy, R. P. Lin, D. Larsen, T. Phan, H. Reme, T. Sanderson, G. Germany, and J. Spann, The relationship of ion beams and fast flows in the plasma sheet boundary layer, Proc. Fourth International Conf. on Substorms, 1998.

H. U. Frey, S. B. Mende, H. B. Vo, M. Brittnacher, and G. K. Parks, Conjugate observation of optical aurora with polar satellite and ground-based cameras, Advances in Space Research, in press, 1998.

K. Liou, C.-I. Meng, A. T. Y. Lui, P. T. Newell, M. Brittnacher, G. Parks, and M. Nose, A fresh look at substorm onset identifiers, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 249-252, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

H. Laakso, H. Opgenoorth, T. Pulkkinen, A. Viljanen, M. Brittnacher, J. A. Slavin, J. W. Gjerloev, N. J. Fox, and R. P. Lepping, Auroral disturbances produced by brief intervals of southward IMF, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 283-286, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

J. K. Arballo, C. M. Ho, G. S. Lakhina, B. T. Tsurutani, X.-Y. Zhou, Y. Kamide, J.-H. Shue, S.-I. Akasofu, R. P. Lepping, C. C. Goodrich, K. Papadopoulos, A. S. Sharma, and J. G. Lyon, Pseudobreakups during January 10, 1997, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 315-318, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

Submitted

Secondary Publications

Journal Publications

Published

Angelopoulos, V., T. D. Phan, D. E. Larson, F. S. Mozer, R. P. Lin, K. Tsuruda, T. Mukai, S. Kokubun, T. Yamamoto, D. J. Williams, R. W. McEntire, R. P. Lepping, G. K. Parks, M. Brittnacher, G. Germany, J. Spann, H. J. Singer, and K. Yumoto, Magnetotail flow bursts: Association to global magnetospheric circulation, relationship to ionospheric activity and direct evidence for localization, Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 2271, 1997.

Hirahara, M., J. L. Horwitz, T. E. Moore, J. F. Spann, G. A. Germany, W. Peterson, E. Shelley, M. Chandler, G. Giles, P. Craven, C. Pollock, J. Scudder, D. Gurnett, J. Pickett, A. Persoon, N. Maynard, F. Mozer, M. Brittnacher, and T. Nagai, Correlation of ionospheric ion outflows with auroras, waves, and convection observed with the POLAR satellite: Case studies during active and quiet intervals, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1997.

Lu, G., D. N. Baker, R. L. McPherron, C. J. Farrugia, D. Lummerzheim, J. M. Ruohoniemi, F. J. Rich, D. S. Evans, R. P. Lepping, M. Brittnacher, X. Li, R. Greenwald, G. Sofko, J. Villain, M. Lester, J. Thayer, T. Moretto, D. Milling, O. Troshichev, A. Zaitzev, V. Odintzov, G. Makarov, and K. Hayashi, Global energy deposition during the January 1997 magnetic cloud event, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 11685, 1998.

Accepted

Conference Proceedings

Accepted

G. Lu, A. D. Richmond, Y. Kamide, D. Lummerzheim, M. Brittnacher, and G. Parks, Global ionospheric convection during substorm expansion, Proc. Fourth International Conf. on Substorms, 1998.

A. T. Y. Lui, K. Liou, P. T. Newell, C.-I. Meng, and S.-I. Ohtani, Plasma sheet behavior associated with auroral breakups, Proc. Fourth International Conf. on Substorms, 1998.

R. Nakamura, S. Kokubun, T. Mukai, T. Yamamoto, M. Brittnacher, and G. Parks, Temporal and spatial ralationships between midtail sustorm adisturband and auroral substorm onset, Proc. Fourth International Conf. on Substorms, 1998.

N. Ostgaard, J. Stadsnes, J. Bjordal, E. Thorsen, R. R. Vondrak, S. A. Cummer, D. L. Chenette, G. K. Parks, M. J. Brittnacher, and D. L. McKenzie, Global scale precipitation during substorm expansions, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 55-58, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

G. K. Parks, L. J. Chen, M. Brittnacher, M. McCarthy, R. P. Lin, D. Larsen, T. Phan, H. Reme, T. Sanderson, G. Germany, and J. Spann, The relationship of ion beams and fast flows in the plasma sheet boundary layer, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 119-123, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

M. Lester, S. E. Milan, K. Baker, R. A. Greenwald, M. Brittnacher, D. Lummerzheim, C. J. Owen, T. I. Pulkkinen, G. D. Reeves, G. Sofko, and J.-P. Villain, Polar, IMP-8 and SuperDARN observations of substorm growth and expansion phase signatures, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 175-178, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

R. Nakamura, S. Kokubun, T. Mukai, T. Yamamoto, M. Brittnacher, and G. Parks, Temporal and spatial relationships between midtail substorm disturbance and auroral substorm onset, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 179-182, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

A. T. Y. Lui, K. Liou, P. T. Newell, C.-I. Meng, S.-I. Ohtani, T. Yamamoto, T. Ogino, S. Kokubun, M. J. Brittnacher, and G. K. Parks, Plasma sheet behavior associated with auroral breakups, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 183-186, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

Y. Kamide, J.-H. Shue, X. Li, G. Lu, M. J. Brittnacher, G. K. Parks, and G. D. Reeves, Internally and externally triggered substorms: a case study of the January 10, 1997 events, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 305-308, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

B. T. Tsurutani, J. K. Arballo, G. S. Lakhina, C. M. Ho, J. M. Ajello, J. S. Pickett, D. A. Gurnett, R. P. Lepping, W. K. Peterson, G. Rostoker, Y. Kamide, and S. Kokubun, A CME loop and the January 10, 1997 first substorm, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 309-314, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

V. R. Tagirov, V. A. Arinin, C.-I. Meng, D. G. Sibeck, A. T. Y. Lui, K. Liou, A. G. Ivanov, L. A. Frank, D. Morgan, and G. Parks, Comparison of two substorm onsets on the basis of coordinated ground-satellite observations, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 339-342, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

R. A. Greenwald and H. Gallagher, Convection signatures of substorms: from global scale to microscale, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 611-616, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

G. Lu, A. D. Richmond, Y. Kamide, D. Lummerzheim, M. Brittnacher, and G. Parks, Global ionospheric convection during substorm expansion, Fourth International Conference on Substorms (ICS-4), pp 617-622, Lake Hamana, Japan, 1998.

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POLAR UVI Publications / Updated 21 July 1998
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