Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Oksavik, Kjellmar"

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    • Challenges and Strategic Research Plans for Earth and Heliosphere: Research Infrastructures, Projects and Initiatives 

      Mann, Ingrid; Kauristie, Kirsti; Bamford, Ruth; McCrea, Ian; Moen, Jøran Idar; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Yamauchi, Masanori; Johnsen, Magnar Gullikstad; Turunen, Esa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-07-24)
      We describe existing research infrastructures relevant for space weather and open issues of space weather research including the need for sustainable observation networks and for high-quality data products as basis for ...

    • The Cusp as a VLF Saucer Source: First Rocket Observations of Long‐Duration VLF Saucers on the Dayside 

      Moser, Chrystal; LaBelle, James William; Hatch, Spencer Mark; Moen, Jøran Idar; Spicher, Andres; Takahashi, Toru; Kletzing, Craig A.; Bounds, Scott Randolph; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Sigernes, Fred; Yeoman, Timothy K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Auroral whistler‐mode radio emissions called saucers are of fundamental interest because they require an unusually stationary emission process in the dynamic auroral environment, and it is a mystery how that can happen in ...

    • Dayside Field-Aligned Current Impacts on Ionospheric Irregularities 

      Follestad, Anna Kristine Fæhn; Herlingshaw, Katie; Ghadjari, Hossein; Knudsen, David J.; McWilliams, Kathryn A.; Moen, Jøran Idar; Spicher, Andres; Wu, Jingjing; Oksavik, Kjellmar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are subject to disturbances caused by plasma irregularities in the ionosphere. Studies have suggested that in addition to the gradient drift and Kelvin‐Helmholtz instabilities, ...

    • Dayside Transient Phenomena and Their Impact on the Magnetosphere and Ionosphere 

      Zhang, Hui; Zong, Qiugang; Connor, Hyunju; Delamere, Peter; Facskó, Gábor; Han, Desheng; Hasegawa, Hiroshi; Kallio, Esa; Kis, Árpád; Le, Guan; Lembège, Bertrand; Lin, Yu; Liu, Terry; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Omidi, Nojan; Otto, Antonius; Ren, Jie; Shi, Quanqi; Sibeck, David; Yao, Shutao (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Dayside transients, such as hot flow anomalies, foreshock bubbles, magnetosheath jets, flux transfer events, and surface waves, are frequently observed upstream from the bow shock, in the magnetosheath, and at the magnetopause. ...

    • The Dependence of Cold and Hot Patches on Local Plasma Transport and Particle Precipitation in Northern Hemisphere Winter 

      Zhang, Duan; Zhang, Qing-He; Ma, Y.-Z.; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Lyons, L.R.; Xing, Zan-Yang; Hairston, Marc; Deng, Z.-X.; Liu, J.-J. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      By using a database of 4,634 cold patches (high density and low electron temperature) and 4,700 hot patches (high density and high electron temperature) from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program F16 in 2005–2018 winter ...

    • Do the Throat Auroras Create Polar Cap Patches? 

      Zhang, Duan; Zhang, Qing-He; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Xu, Tong; Xing, Zan-Yang; Lyons, L.R.; Han, De-Sheng; Zhang, Hong-Bo; Ma, Yu-Zhang; Hu, Ze-Jun; Liu, Jian-Jun; Wang, Yong; Wang, Xiang-Yu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Throat auroras and polar cap patches are common phenomena in the polar ionosphere resulting from magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. A campaign was organized, with all-sky imagers at Yellow River Station, the European ...

    • Dynamic effects of restoring footpoint symmetry on closed magnetic field lines 

      Reistad, Jone Peter; Østgaard, Nikolai; Tenfjord, Paul; Laundal, Karl Magnus; Snekvik, Kristian; Haaland, Stein; Milan, Steve; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Frey, H. U.; Grokott, A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016-05-05)
      Here we present an event where simultaneous global imaging of the aurora from both hemispheres reveals a large longitudinal shift of the nightside aurora of about 3 h, being the largest relative shift reported on from ...

    • Dynamic properties of throat aurora revealed by simultaneous ground and satellite observations 

      Chen, Xiangcai; Han, Desheng; Lorentzen, Dag Arne; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Moen, Jøran Idar; Baddeley, Lisa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-03)
      Throat aurora is defined as south-north aligned auroral arcs equatorward of the dayside cusp aurora and was suggested to be the results of cold magnetospheric plasma interaction with magnetopause reconnection, but its ...

    • Electron Density Depletion Region Observed in the Polar Cap Ionosphere 

      Bjoland, Lindis Merete; Ogawa, Y.; Løvhaug, Unni Pia; Lorentzen, Dag Arne; Hatch, Spencer Mark; Oksavik, Kjellmar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This paper presents and discusses electron density depletion regions observed with the incoherent scatter EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) located at 75.43°N geomagnetic latitude. The data include several decades of measurements, ...

    • Exploring solar-terrestrial interactions via multiple imaging observers 

      Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella; Berthomier, M; Bogdanova, Y. V.; Carter, Jennifer; Collier, M; Dimmock, A; Dunlop, Malcolm; Fear, Robert C.; Forsyth, Colin; Hubert, Benoit; Kronberg, Elena A.; Laundal, Karl Magnus; Lester, Mark; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Østgaard, Nikolai; Palmroth, Minna; Plaschke, Ferdinand; Porter, F.S.; Rae, I. Jonathan; Read, Andy; Samsonov, A. A.; Sembay, Steven; Shprits, Yuri; Sibeck, David G.; Walsh, Brian; Yamauchi, M (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      How does solar wind energy flow through the Earth’s magnetosphere, how is it converted and distributed? is the question we want to address. We need to understand how geomagnetic storms and substorms start and grow, not ...

    • GPS scintillation and irregularities at the front of an ionization tongue in the nightside polar ionosphere 

      van der Meeren, Christer; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Lorentzen, Dag Arne; Moen, Jøran Idar; Romano, Vincenzo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-10)
      In this paper we study a tongue of ionization (TOI) on 31 October 2011 which stretched across the polar cap from the Canadian dayside sector to Svalbard in the nightside ionosphere. The TOI front arrived over Svalbard ...

    • GPS Scintillations and Losses of Signal Lock at High Latitudes During the 2015 St. Patrick's Day Storm 

      Jin, Yaqi; Oksavik, Kjellmar (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-09)
      We investigate the Global Positioning System (GPS) amplitude and phase scintillations during a severe geomagnetic storm on 17 March 2015. The auroral oval expanded significantly due to a strongly southward interplanetary ...

    • GPS Scintillations and TEC Variations in Association With a Polar Cap Arc 

      Wang, Yong; Cao, Zheng; Xing, Zan-Yang; Zhang, Qing-He; Jayachandran, P.T.; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Balan, Nanan; Shiokawa, Kazuo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      A unique example of a polar cap arc producing clear amplitude and phase scintillations in GPS L-band signals is presented using observations from an all-sky imager and a GPS receiver and a digital ionosonde at Resolute Bay ...

    • GPS scintillations associated with cusp dynamics and polar cap patches 

      Jin, Yaqi; Moen, Jøran Idar; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Spicher, Andres; Clausen, Lasse Boy Novock; Miloch, Wojciech Jacek (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      This paper investigates the relative scintillation level associated with cusp dynamics (including precipitation, flow shears, etc.) with and without the formation of polar cap patches around the cusp inflow region by the ...

    • How Often Do Thermally Excited 630.0 nm Emissions Occur in the Polar Ionosphere? 

      Kwagala, Norah Kaggwa; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Lorentzen, Dag Arne; Johnsen, Magnar Gullikstad (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-01)
      This paper studies thermally excited emissions in the polar ionosphere derived from European Incoherent Scatter Svalbard radar measurements from the years 2000–2015. The peak occurrence is found around magnetic noon, where ...

    • In-flight calibration of NOAA POES proton detectors - Derivation of the MEPED correction factors 

      Sandanger, Marit Irene; Ødegaard, Linn-Kristine Glesnes; Tyssøy, Hilde Nesse; Stadsnes, Johan; Søraas, Finn; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Aarsnes, Kjell (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-11-25)
      The MEPED instruments on board the NOAA POES and MetOp satellites have been continuously measuring energetic particles in the magnetosphere since 1978. However, degradation of the proton detectors over time leads to an ...

    • Intensity asymmetries in the dusk sector of the poleward auroral oval due to IMF Bx 

      Reistad, Jone Peter; Østgaard, Nikolai; Laundal, Karl Magnus; Haaland, Stein; Tenfjord, Paul; Snekvik, Kristian; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Milan, Steve (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-12)
      In the exploration of global-scale features of the Earth's aurora, little attention has been given to the radial component of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF). This study investigates the global auroral response in ...

    • Interferometric Study of Ionospheric Plasma Irregularities in Regions of Phase Scintillations and HF Backscatter 

      Spicher, Andres; LaBelle, James; Bonnell, John W.; Roglans, Roger; Moser, Chrystal; Fuselier, Stephen A.; Bounds, Scott; Clausen, Lasse; Di Mare, Francesca; Feltman, Connor A.; Jin, Yaqi; Kletzing, Craig; Miloch, Wojciech Jacek; Moen, Jøran Idar; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Sawyer, Rhyan; Takahashi, Toru; Yeoman, Tim K. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      We investigate the nature of small-scale irregularities observed in the cusp by the Twin Rockets to Investigate Cusp Electrodynamics-2 (TRICE-2) in regions of enhanced phase scintillations and high-frequency coherent radar ...

    • Interhemispheric asymmetries of neutral upwelling and ion upflow 

      Lessard, Marc R.; Damsell, Alec; Sadler, F. Brent; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Clausen, Lasse (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      This work addresses interhemispheric differences in cusp-related neutral density enhancements. The focus is on enhancements that are driven by Poleward Moving Auroral Forms (PMAF), which provide a repetitive sequence of ...

    • Multi-Instrument Observations of the Evolution of Polar Cap Patches Associated With Flow Shears and Particle Precipitation 

      Zhang, Duan; Zhang, Qing-He; Oksavik, Kjellmar; Xing, Zan-Yang; Lyons, L.R.; Yang, Hui-Gen; Li, Guo-Jun; Hosokawa, Keisuke; Shinbori, Atsuki; Ma, Yu-Zhang; Wang, Yong; Wang, Xiang-Yu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Simultaneous observations from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, Swarm, Resolute Bay all-sky imagers, GPS Total Electron Content and Super Dual Auroral Radar Network, are used to investigate the evolution and key ...