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International CAWSES-II Symposium

Edited by: Mamoru Yamamoto, Kazuo Shiokawa, Takuji Nakamura, Nat Gopalswamy

This special issue presents papers from the International CAWSES-II Symposium (November 18-22, 2013 at Nagoya University, Japan). CAWSES-II (Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System II) is an international scientific program sponsored by SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics) that continued from 2009 to 2013. The program was established with the aim of significantly enhancing our understanding of the space environment and its impacts on life and society. This special issue covers the six major themes addressed by CAWSES-II.

Publication started: 14 July 2014
Publication finished: 19 February 2016

  1. Authors: Masayoshi Kozai, Kazuoki Munakata, Chihiro Kato, Takao Kuwabara, John W. Bieber, Paul Evenson, Marlos Rockenbach, Alisson Dal Lago, Nelson J. Schuch, Munetoshi Tokumaru, Marcus L. Duldig, John E. Humble, Ismail Sabbah, Hala K. Al Jassar, Madan M. Sharma and Jozsef Kóta
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:38
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

    The original article was published in Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:151

  2. This special issue gathered papers from the International CAWSES-II Symposium (November 18–22, 2013 at Nagoya University, Japan). Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System II (CAWSES-II) is an international ...

    Authors: Mamoru Yamamoto, Kazuo Shiokawa, Takuji Nakamura and Nat Gopalswamy
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:26
    Content type: Preface Published on:

  3. We investigated the effects of the F region bottomside altitude (h’F), maximum upward E × B drift velocity, duration of pre-reversal enhancement and the integral of upward E × B drift on the latitudinal extension...

    Authors: Prayitno Abadi, Yuichi Otsuka and Takuya Tsugawa
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:74
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  4. To better understand the acceleration mechanism of high-energy particles that are driven by solar flares, we examined solar neutron signals. We have performed a statistical analysis by reviewing the data colle...

    Authors: Diego Lopez and Yutaka Matsubara
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:54
    Content type: LETTER Published on:

  5. We report the first observation of the disappearance of a plasma bubble over geomagnetically conjugate points. It was observed by airglow imagers at Darwin, Australia (magnetic latitude: −22°N) and Sata, Japan...

    Authors: Kazuo Shiokawa, Yuichi Otsuka, Kenneth JW Lynn, Philip Wilkinson and Takuya Tsugawa
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:43
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  6. We analyzed trees that have survived on Yaku island (Yakushima) for 2,000 years. Quite surprisingly, the Fourier and wavelet analyses of the annual growth rate identified 2 cycles of periodicities of 11 and (2...

    Authors: Yasushi Muraki, Takumi Mitsutani, Shoichi Shibata, Syuichi Kuramata, Kimiaki Masuda and Kentaro Nagaya
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:31
    Content type: LETTER Published on:

  7. We describe an automated technique to determine parameters of traveling ionospheric disturbances (TIDs) using the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) high frequency (HF) radar data. The technique is b...

    Authors: Alexey V Oinats, Vladimir I Kurkin and Nozomu Nishitani
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:22
    Content type: Letter Published on:

  8. Chorus wave emissions are one of the most intense naturally occurring phenomena in the very low (VLF) and extremely low frequency (ELF) ranges. They are believed to be one of the major contributors to accelera...

    Authors: Claudia Martinez-Calderon, Kazuo Shiokawa, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Mitsunori Ozaki, Ian Schofield and Martin Connors
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:21
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  9. This study investigates the impact of dynamical processes in the neutral atmosphere on the high-midlatitude ionosphere during two sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events. For this purpose, the reanalysis met...

    Authors: Boris G Shpynev, Vladimir I Kurkin, Konstantin G Ratovsky, Marina A Chernigovskaya, Anastasiya Yu Belinskaya, Svetlana A Grigorieva, Alexander E Stepanov, Vasily V Bychkov, Dora Pancheva and Plamen Mukhtarov
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:18
    Content type: Letter Published on:

  10. This paper presents an overview of the capacity-building activities and science-enabling services of the Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET) project. This Japanese program, w...

    Authors: Akiyo Yatagai, Yuka Sato, Atsuki Shinbori, Shuji Abe and Satoru UeNo
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:2
    Content type: Technical report Published on:

  11. In this paper, we investigate the role of eastward and upward propagating fast (FK) and ultrafast Kelvin (UFK) waves in the day-to-day variability of equatorial evening prereversal vertical drift and post suns...

    Authors: Mangalathayil A Abdu, Christiano GM Brum, Paulo P Batista, Subramanian Gurubaran, Dora Pancheva, Jose V Bageston, Inez S Batista and Hisao Takahashi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2015 67:1
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  13. Characteristics of long-term variation in the amplitude of solar quiet (Sq) geomagnetic field daily variation have been investigated using 1-h geomagnetic field data obtained from 69 geomagnetic observation st...

    Authors: Atsuki Shinbori, Yukinobu Koyama, Masahito Nose, Tomoaki Hori, Yuichi Otsuka and Akiyo Yatagai
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:155
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  14. The ionosonde observations made at 5-min intervals at the Indian dip equatorial station Tirunelveli (8.7°N, 77.8°E geographic; 1.1°N dip latitude) from March 2008 to February 2009 during the extended solar min...

    Authors: Viswanathan Lakshmi Narayanan, Sukanta Sau, Subramanian Gurubaran, Kazuo Shiokawa, Nanan Balan, Kaliappan Emperumal and Samireddipalle Sripathi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:160
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  17. We derive the long-term variation of the three-dimensional (3D) anisotropy of approximately 60 GV galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) from the data observed with the Global Muon Detector Network (GMDN) on an hourly ba...

    Authors: Masayoshi Kozai, Kazuoki Munakata, Chihiro Kato, Takao Kuwabara, John W Bieber, Paul Evenson, Marlos Rockenbach, Alisson Dal Lago, Nelson J Schuch, Munetoshi Tokumaru, Marcus L Duldig, John E Humble, Ismail Sabbah, Hala K Al Jassar, Madan M Sharma and Jozsef Kóta
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:151
    Content type: LETTER Published on:

    The Erratum to this article has been published in Earth, Planets and Space 2016 68:38

  18. The correlation of lidar returns at a wavelength of 532 nm at altitudes of 150 to 300 km is investigated with the parameters of the night ionospheric F2 layer. Moreover, the role of excited ions of the nitroge...

    Authors: Vasily V Bychkov, Yuri А Nepomnyashchiy, Andrey S Perezhogin and Boris M Shevtsov
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:150
    Content type: Letter Published on:

  19. We derived the coronal magnetic field, plasma density, and temperature from the observation of polarization and intensity of radio thermal free-free emission using the Nobeyama Radioheliograph (NoRH) and extre...

    Authors: Kazumasa Iwai, Kiyoto Shibasaki, Satoshi Nozawa, Takuya Takahashi, Shinpei Sawada, Jun Kitagawa, Shun Miyawaki and Hirotaka Kashiwagi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:149
    Content type: Frontier letter Published on:

  20. To study the seeding mechanism of ionospheric irregularity occurrences, a correlation study has been carried out between the global monthly/latitudinal (m/l) distributions of irregularity occurrences and the d...

    Authors: Shin-Yi Su, Chung Lung Wu and Chao Han Liu
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:134
    Content type: Frontier letter Published on:

  21. Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics/Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (TIMED/SABER) temperature measurements at 110 km and between ±50° latitude extending fr...

    Authors: Alexander O Truskowski, Jeffrey M Forbes, Xiaoli Zhang and Scott E Palo
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:136
    Content type: FULL PAPER Published on:

  23. The equatorial electrojet (EEJ) is a strong eastward ionospheric current flowing in a narrow band along the dip equator. In this study, we examined the EEJ-Sq relationship by using observations at six stations...

    Authors: Nurul Shazana Abdul Hamid, Huixin Liu, Teiji Uozumi, Kiyohumi Yumoto, Bhaskara Veenadhari, Akimasa Yoshikawa and Jairo Avendaño Sanchez
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:146
    Content type: Letter Published on:

  24. We investigate possible generation mechanisms of Pc1 pearl structures using multi-point induction magnetometers in Athabasca in Canada, Magadan in Russia, and Moshiri in Japan. We selected two Pc1 pulsations t...

    Authors: Chae-Woo Jun, Kazuo Shiokawa, Martin Connors, Ian Schofield, Igor Poddelsky and Boris Shevtsov
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:140
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  25. In this study, we combine monthly median values for the F2-layer critical frequency (foF2), measured at Alma-Ata ionosonde station [43.25°N, 76.92°E] between 1000 and 1400 (local time), with historical data on th...

    Authors: Galina I Gordiyenko, Victor V Vodyannikov, Artur F Yakovets and Yuriy G Litvinov
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:125
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  26. The Interuniversity Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET) project is a 6-year research project which started in 2009. The objective of this project is to establish a metadata database of variou...

    Authors: Shuji Abe, Norio Umemura, Yukinobu Koyama, Yoshimasa Tanaka, Manabu Yagi, Akiyo Yatagai, Atsuki Shinbori, Satoru UeNo, Yuka Sato and Naoki Kaneda
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:133
    Content type: Technical report Published on:

  27. We plan to observe solar neutrons at Mt. Sierra Negra (4,600 m above sea level) in Mexico using the SciBar detector. This project is named the SciBar Cosmic Ray Telescope (SciCRT). The main aims of the SciCRT ...

    Authors: Yoshinori Sasai, Yuya Nagai, Yoshitaka Itow, Yutaka Matsubara, Takashi Sako, Diego Lopez, Tsukasa Itow, Kazuoki Munakata, Chihiro Kato, Masayoshi Kozai, Takahiro Miyazaki, Shoichi Shibata, Akitoshi Oshima, Hiroshi Kojima, Harufumi Tsuchiya, Kyoko Watanabe…
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:130
    Content type: Letter Published on:

  31. The effect of including solar cycle 23 in foF2 trend estimation is assessed using experimental values for Slough (51.5°N, 359.4°E) and Kokobunji (35.7°N, 139.5°E), and values obtained from two models: (1) the ...

    Authors: Ana G Elias, Blas F de Haro Barbas, Kiyoto Shibasaki and Jonas R Souza
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:111
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  32. We report on a study of all major solar eruptions that occurred on the frontside of the Sun during the rise to peak phase of cycle 24 (first 62 months) in order to understand the key factors affecting the occu...

    Authors: Nat Gopalswamy, Hong Xie, Sachiko Akiyama, Pertti A Mäkelä and Seiji Yashiro
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:104
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  33. The extended Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model (eCMAM) was recently run in a nudged mode using reanalysis data from the ground to 1 hPa for the period of January 1979 to June 2010 (hence the name eCMAM30). In t...

    Authors: Quan Gan, Jian Du, William E Ward, Stephen R Beagley, Victor I Fomichev and Shaodong Zhang
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:103
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  34. Long-term systematic observations of noctilucent clouds in the regions of Moscow (Russia), Vilnius (Lithuania), and La Ronge (Canada) are considered. Variables, describing the seasonal activity of noctilucent ...

    Authors: Nikolay Pertsev, Peter Dalin, Vladimir Perminov, Vitaly Romejko, Audrius Dubietis, Ričardas Balčiunas, Kazimieras Černis and Mark Zalcik
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:98
    Content type: Letter Published on:

  35. This paper describes a neural network-based model developed to predict geomagnetic storms time K index as measured at a magnetic observatory located in Hermanus (34°25 S; 19°13 E), South Africa. The parameters us...

    Authors: Jean Uwamahoro and John Bosco Habarulema
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:95
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  36. Comprehensive behavior of the low-latitude upper atmosphere during sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events at varying levels of solar activity has been investigated. The equatorial electrojet (EEJ) strength ...

    Authors: Fazlul I Laskar, Duggirala Pallamraju and Bhaskara Veenadhari
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:94
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  37. Three-dimensional nonlinear breaking acoustic-gravity waves (AGWs) propagating from the Earth's surface to the upper atmosphere are simulated numerically. Horizontally moving periodical structures of vertical ...

    Authors: Nikolai M Gavrilov and Sergey P Kshevetskii
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:88
    Content type: Letter Published on:

  38. Global Positioning System radio occultation measurements by FORMOsa SATellite mission-3/Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate satellites were used to analyse the characteristic...

    Authors: Tilo Fytterer, Christina Arras, Peter Hoffmann and Christoph Jacobi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:79
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  40. Results of a superposed epoch (SPE) analysis of occurrence of phase scintillation and cycle slips at high latitudes keyed by arrival times of high-speed solar wind streams (HSS) and interplanetary coronal mass...

    Authors: Paul Prikryl, P Thayyil Jayachandran, Sajan C Mushini and Ian G Richardson
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2014 66:62
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