A study of high-latitude auroral arcs using radar, optical, and in situ techniques
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Two experimental campaigns designed to study high-latitude auroral arcs have been conducted in Sonde Stromfjord, Greenland. The Polar Acceleration Regions and Convection Study (Polar ARCS) on February 26, 1987, consisted of a coordinated set of ground-based and sounding rocket measurements of a weak, sun-aligned arc within the duskside polar cap, while the Rodeo I and II experiments, conducted during December, 1988 and October, 1989, involved uniquely coordinated optical and radar measurements of high-latitude arcs occurring at the poleward boundary of the auroral oval. Analysis of the large-scale Polar ARCS data indicate anti-sunward convection in the region between the duskside auroral oval and the sun-aligned arc. This convection signature is consistent with either a model in which the sun-aligned arcs formed on open field lines over the polar cap or on closed field lines threading an expanded low-latitude boundary layer, but not a model in which the polar cap arc field lines map to an expanded plasma sheet. Electron measurements indicate that the rocket passed through three narrow ($\le
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Weiss, Loretta A.. "A study of high-latitude auroral arcs using radar, optical, and in situ techniques." (1992) Diss., Rice University. https://hdl.handle.net/1911/16592.