======================================================================= Ørsted Newsletter #8, 2000 (June 20) ======================================================================= Table of Contents ======================================================================= 1. Publication references format for the project office 2. AGU special session update ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Publication references format for the project office ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Torsten Neubert (neubert@dmi.dk) Thank you for updating us on you publication activities - several of you responded to this item of the last newsletter. To help us also with the practical work associated with getting the information you send on the web, please send it in a form where we can just highlight the text with the mouse and paste it into our files. You help us by following the format of the example below. The first part is the basic paper reference in AGU format. The second part containing the abstract will be as a link that is called up clicking on the reference. The same format is used for oral and poster presentations, where the meeting reference substitutes the paper reference. ---------------------------------------------------------------- EXAMPLE ---------------------------------------------------------------- Yamashita, S., T. Iyemori, S. Nakano, T. Araki, and T.Kamei, Birkeland Current Effects at Mid- and Low- Latitudes Observed by the Oersted Satellite, Geophys. Res. Lett., submitted, 2000. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Birkeland Current Effects at Mid- and Low- Latitudes Observed by the Oersted Satellite S. Yamashita (1), T. Iyemori (2), S. Nakano(2), T. Araki(2), and T.Kamei (2) (1) Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan; e-mail:.......; http://.... (2) ......... The Oersted satellite was launched on February 23 1999, and made precise magnetic measurement at low-altitudes near noon-midnight meridian for the period between April 1999 - January 2000. Adding to the expected signatures of the ring current, the Sq current and the equatorial electrojet in radial component (positive outward) and southward component, eastward component (eastward positive) shows distinct variations at mid- and low- latitudes. It has a negative trend in northward direction on the dayside, and a positive trend on the nightside. The slope has a high correlation with geomagnetic activity such as the ap index. This indicates the existence of the net Birkeland currents flowing into the ionosphere on the dayside, and flowing out on the nightside. The net currents seem to extend in wide LT range, and the center of the current on the dayside seems to be in the pre-noon sector. ---------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Part 1: Reference in AGU style. Always provide this information. -Part 2: Abstract, author address, etc. This is not mandatory, but is very useful for others in the project. -Use maximum line - length as shown in example. -ASCII text directly in e-mail and not as attached file. -Same format for oral and poster presentations. Give meeting reference as name, place, date, year. -let us know when a paper is accepted -when printed, send us the volume, page, year reference. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. AGU special session update ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Cathy Constable (cconstable@ucsd.edu) The Orsted special session was approved at the AGU program committee meeting last weekend, and will be jointly sponsored by GP, SM, and SA. The following description will be published on AGU's website, and the title and conveners in EOS. GP01 The Orsted High-Precision Geomagnetic Satellite Mission (GP, joint with SM, SA) Launched on February 23, 1999, into a low-Earth, polar orbit, the Orsted satellite provides a wealth of high-precision vector magnetic field data, measurements of high-energy charged particles, and profiles of the ionospheric densities and atmospheric properties using GPS occultation techniques. The investigations cover a broad range of geophysics topics, including research into core fields, crustal- and induction fields, and external fields from field-aligned and ionospheric currents. While these research topics traditionally have been segmented into separate communities, the experience from the Orsted project shows the advantage of combining the research discussions of these communities. Papers are solicited that are related to the Orsted mission or to the topic of high-precision magnetometry. Torsten Neubert, Solar-Terrestrial Physics Division, Danish Meteorological Institute, Lyngbyvej 100, 2800 Copenhagen O, Denmark, tel: +45 39-15-74-92, fax: +45 39-15-74-60, email: neubert@dmi.dk; Gauthier Hulot, IPGP, Département de Géomagnétisme et Paléomagnétisme, CNRS UA 729, 4 Place Jussieu, B89, Tour 24, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France, Tél: (33) 1 44 27 24 12, Fax: (33) 1 44 27 33 73, email: ghulot@ipgp.jussieu.fr; Cathy Constable, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0225, USA, Tel. (1) 858 534 3183, Fax (1) 858 534 8090 , email cconstable@ucsd.edu AGU envisages the following timetable for planning the Fall Meeting: Week of July 10: Titles and special session descriptions published on web July 27: Special session titles and conveners published in EOS August 1: Abstract submission form available on web Sept.1: Postal and express mail abstract deadline Sept 7: Web abstract deadline -----------------------------------------------------------------------