| Description | Auroral movies taken by the white-light all-sky imager (made by Watec) at Syowa Station, Antarctica. This observation started in September, 2009. The original images were taken every second. Around the autumn and spring equinoxes (March and September), aurora can sometimes be simultaneously observed at both Syowa and Iceland stations. |
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| Keyword | EARTH SCIENCE Sun-earch Interaction Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Dynamics Aurorae |
| Owner and PIC |
National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS), Japan Akira Kadokura *PrincipalInvestigator null null *CoInvestigator Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan Yuka Sato *MetadataContact |
| Terms of Use | Please contact the Principal Investigator of this project (uapdata [at] nipr.ac.jp), National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) before using the data at any publications and/or presentations. We welcome collaborative research and strongly recommend users to contact us early in order to ensure that the data are suitable for their research. When the data are used at any publications and/or presentations, we would like to ask the users to acknowledge NIPR and send us one copy of the reprints. An example of the acknowledgement statement is as follows: "Aurora images were provided by National Institute of Polar Research, Japan. The auroral observation at Syowa Station was mainly supported by the Research Program of Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (MEXT). The distribution of the auroral images has been partly supported by the IUGONET (Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork) project (http://www.iugonet.org/) funded by the MEXT." |
| References |
Interhemispheric Conjugate Aurora Monitoring (ICAM) website http://polaris.nipr.ac.jp/~aurora/icam/calendar_mov_Watec_SYO.html Website of auroral movies taken by the white-light all-sky imagers (made by Watec) at Syowa Station, Antarctica. You can select auroral movies from the calendar. |
| Acquisition Date | From: 2009-09-20T20:44:08 To: |
| Acquisition Site |
Northernmost-Latitude: -57.4 Southernmost-Latitude: -80.6 Easternmost-Longitude: 72.7 Westernmost-Longitude: 6.4 |
| Observation Target |
Earth.NearSurface.AuroralRegion Earth.NearSurface.Ionosphere.ERegion Earth.NearSurface.Ionosphere.FRegion |
| Data Processing Level |