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UJI LECTURES ON THE AURORA

A series of lectures on the the aurora that were presented at Kyoto University
during the summer of 1997.

Copyright 1997, 1998, by W. Calvert, all rights reserved.

Publications

Do localized electric fields cause the structure of the aurora?

The gotcha-kata-kata or "domino" theory of substorm expansion.

Electron precipitation caused by convection into the larger loss cone on lower-latitude field lines.

Predicted electron precipitation for a filled loss cone at the top of the auroral electron acceleration region.

Local increases in auroral electron precipitation which were not accompanied by a corresponding increase in the electric potential of the auroral electron accelera tion region.

The stimulation of auroral kilometric radiation by type III solar radio bursts.

A feedback model for the source of auroral kilometric radiation.

Auroral precipitation caused by auroral kilometric radiation.

An explanation for auroral structure and the triggering of auroral kilometric radiation.