Opening Session

Wednesday 13 August; Chair: U.-P. Hoppe

17:00

U.-P. Hoppe

Welcome and brief presentation of committee members

S. Spjelkavik

Welcome Address by the Mayor of Longyearbyen

18:40

P.K. Reymert

The Auroral Station in Spitzbergen 1902-03. The First Norwegian Scientific Wintering on Svalbard. (45 min)

Aurora, Ionosphere, and Magnetosphere

Thursday 14 August; Chair: U.-P. Hoppe, F. Sigernes

09:00

09:25

H. C. Carlson

Results from the New All-Sky Photometer at Ny Aalesund

09:25

09:40

J. Jussila, H. Holma, K. Kaila, A. Aikio, P. Gallop

High-Resolution Study of Rayed Auroral Arcs

09:40

09:55

M. Galand, J. Baumgardner, A. Bergquist, S. Chakrabarti, U.P. Løvhaug, B. Isham, J. Jussila, D. Lummerzheim

Proton Aurora over Tromsø: Optical Signature and Associated Ionospheric Perturbations.

09:55

10:10

M. Syrjasuo, E. Donovan

Automating the Analysis of a Large Number of Auroral Images

10:25

10:50

S. Okano

Auroral Observations with an All-Sky Spectrograph at the Nordlysstasjonen - Auroral Oxygen Ion Emission

10:50

11:05

M.A. Danieliedes, S. Shalimov, J. Kangas

First Verification of FAC Density Estimates in Current-Carrying Filaments Satellite Magnetic Measurements

11:05

11:20

D. Lorentzen, N. Shumilov, J. Moen

Optical Signatures of Drifting Polar Cap Patches in Relation to Tail Reconnection

11:50

12:05

J. Lunde, D.A. Lorentzen, I.J. Moen

Diagnostics and Notification of the Expansion Phase of the Magnetic Substorm

12:05

12:20

T. Sergienko, B. Gustavsson

Quenching Rates of O(1D) in the Upper Thermosphere

12:20

12:35

N. Partamies, E. Donovan, K. Kauristie, P. Janhunen

An Inversion Method for All-Sky Cameras as a Tool in Auroral Physics

12:35

12:50

M.J. Kosch, M.T. Rietveld, B. Isham, A. Senior, F. Honary

Unique Artificial Auroral Rings Produced by High-Power Radio Waves

12:50

13:05

A.S. Kirillov

Estimation of temperature dependence of electronic quenching rate coefficients using quantum-chemical approximations for molecular oxygen and molecular nitrogen

14:30

14:55

R.W. Smith

Optical Measurements of Upper Atmospheric Winds Made from Adventdalen

14:55

15:10

H. Holma, K. Kaila, J. Jussila, M. Kosch, M.T. Rietveld

The Altitude of Origin of the Auroral Blue Line in Artificially Induced Aurora

15:10

15:25

M.J. Taylor

Michael Gadsden – great man and great scientist

M.A. Danielides, L. Lazutin, N. Meredith, A. Korth, J. Jussila, T. Kozelova, B. Kozelov

Investigation of the Global and Local Substorm Onset and Development Based on Satellites, Auroral TV, and Magnetometer Measurements (Poster presentation)

New Instrumentation

Thursday 14 August; Chair: R. Smith

15:40

15:55

S. Chernouss, M. Mogilevsky, V. Trakhtengerts, C.S. Deehr, and H. Stenbaek-Nielsen

Resonance Project: A Proposal to Induce Pulsating Aurora by Injecting Ions at the Magnetic Conjugate Ionosphere to Modify the Flowing Cyclotron Maser

15:55

16:10

M.J. Kosch, S. Makinen, F. Sigernes, O. Harang

Absolute Optical Calibration Using a Simple Tungsten Light Bulb: Experiment

16:10

16:25

M. Gausa, K. Bekkelund, J. Lunde

Active and Passive Optical Sounding of the Arctic Atmosphere

16:40

16:55

O. Widell

Optical measurements at KEOPS, Esrange

16:55

17:10

V.Vaschenko, Jh.Patlashenko, E.Chernysh

Practical metrology of space satellite UV-ozonometry (Poster Presentation)

17:10

17:25

V.Vaschenko, A.Loza, Jh.Patlashenko

Compensator for instrumental polarizing effects in double monochromators for space uv-ozonometry (Poster Presentation)

A.S. Kirillov, S.A. Chernouss, Yu.V. Platov

Modelling of the influence of solid-fuel rocket launches on concentrations of electrons and ionic components in E-region of ionosphere by taking into account solar light and absorption on exhaust products (Poster presentation)

Mesosphere, NLC, PMSE, and Related Topics

Friday 15 August; Chair: M. Gausa

09:00

09:25

M. J. Taylor, A. Taori, Y. Zhao, W.R. Pendleton, Jr.

Investigating Mesospheric Temperature and Wave-Induced Variability at Low Latitudes Using the CEDAR Mesospheric Temperature Mapper

09:25

09:40

F. Sigernes, N. Shumilov, C.S. Deehr, and O. Havnes

The Polar Winter Mesospheric Temperature Trend at Svalbard

09:40

09:55

P. Espy, J. Diettrich, G.O.L. Jones, M. Cliverd

Integrated Optical and Radar Measurements from Antarctica

09:55

10:10

R.P. Lowe

Analysis of Four Winters of Gravity Wave Observations Using a Scanning Radiometer at the ALOMAR Observatory

10:25

10:50

G. Witt

Overview of the Optical Characteristics of NLC

10:50

11:05

S. Petelina, N.D. Lloyd, E.J. Llewellyn, D.A. Degenstein

Observation of Extinction within Polar Mesospheric Clouds

11:05

11:20

J. Höffner, C. Fricke-Begemann, J. Lautenbach, A. Müllemann, F.-J. Lübken

Observations of NLC, Temperatures, and PMSE at Svalbard, 78ºN

11:20

11:35

C.-Y. She, J. Vance, B. Williams, K. Arnold, D.C. Fritts, U.-P. Hoppe

The Weber Na Lidar at ALOMAR

11:50

12:05

A. Kirillov

Theoretical Calculations of Rates of Inelastic Molecular Collisions in the Middle Atmosphere and the Role of Collisions in Electronic Kinetics and the Chemical Balance During Solar Proton Events

12:05

12:20

F. Sigernes et al.

The Mysterious Red Sky on 6 December 2002

Stratosphere, Ozone, and UV

Friday 15 August; Chair: D. Lorentzen

12:20

12:35

B. Kjeldstad

Topics of interest in ground-based solar UV measurements

12:35

12:50

A. Semenov, S. Chernouss, V. Roldugin, M. Beloglazov, V. Vaschenko, A. Bannikov

Search for Solar Activity and Total Ozone Content Associations in the Arctic and Antarctic

12:50

13:05

J.B. Ørbæk

Radiation climate at Ny Aalesund

14:30

14:55

H. Oelhaf

Stratospheric ozone: Where We are and What MIPAS Experiments Contribute

14:55

15:10

K. Stebel, G. Hansen, U.-P. Hoppe, M. Gausa

How useful is the stratospheric ozone DIAL at ALOMAR for Upper Troposphere / Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) studies?

15:10

15:25

U.-P. Hoppe, Å. Skjæveland, G. Hansen, W. Eriksen, R. Lyngraa, K. Bekkelund, E.V. Thrane, M. Gausa

ALOMAR Ozone Lidar – 8 œ Years of Observations: Can We Detect Any Systematic Changes?

15:25

15:50

V.Vaschenko, A.Loza, Jh.Patlashenko

Aberration theory of an optical schematic of space UV-ozonometers

Satellite Measurements

Friday 15 August; Chair: B. Kjeldstad

16:05

16:30

D. Murtagh

Results from the Odin Satellite

16:30

16:45

S. Petelina, N.D. Lloyd, E.J. Llewellyn, I.C. McDade, C. Haley, C. von Savigny

Validation of Odin/OSIRIS Stratospheric Ozone Measurements

17:00

17:15

D.A. Degenstein, J.T. Wiensz, A.E. Bourassa, N.D. Lloyd, E.J. Llewellyn

Mesospheric Retrievals of Vertical Ozone and Atomic Hydrogen Density Profiles with the OSIRIS Infrared Imager

17:15

17:30

S. Casadio, E. Putz, G. Pisacane, C. Zehner

Water Vapour Total Column Retrieval from GOME and SCIAMACHY Using Empirical Retrieval of Air Mass Factor (ERA) Technique

25 Years Nordlysstasjonen and 30^th Annual Optical Meeting

Saturday 16 August; Chair: A. Egeland

09:00

09:45

C.S. Deehr

30 Years of Real and Imaginary Aeronomical Signatures of Magnetospheric Processes in the Dayside Aurora (45 min)

09:45

10:30

A. Sivjee

What Have We Learned About the Dayside Auroral Spectrum from 25 Years’ Studies. (45 min)

10:45

11:10

A. Egeland

Altitudes of Dayside Aurora (25 min)

11:10

11:35

D. Lorentzen, F. Sigernes, S. Claes, N. Shumilov

A New Optical Auroral Station on Svalbard? (25 min)

11:45

12:10

C.S. Deehr

Optical Atmospheric Scientist Kjell Henriksen: Polar Bear on a Hot Tin Roof (25 min)

12:10

12:35

A. Orheim, T. Telebond

Atmospheric Studies influencing a Terrestrial Community