Charles Wilson
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Auroral substorms, that are a result of solar
activity, have been known for 30 years to produce auroral infrasonic
waves in both the Arctic and Antarctic auroral zones. The results of
our research on auroral infrasound are given in the bibliography
that I have listed below. Within the past year at the I53US CTBT/IMS
infrasonic station in Alaska as well as at I55US in Antarctica at
Windless Bight on the Ross Ice Shelf, we have observed a newly
identified auroral infrasonic wave type that is related to pulsating
auroras that occur in the morning hours of a typical auroral
substorm. Solar activity causes the particle precipitation
into the earth's upper atmosphere that in turn produces the
pulsating aurora the resulting infrasound.
Sincerely yours,
Professor Charles R. Wilson
Geophysical Institute,
University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska
Wilson, C. R. , Auroral infrasonic and ionospheric absorption
substorms, J. Atinos.and Terr. Phys., vol. 74, 4511-4522, 1970
Wilson, C. R. , Auroral infrasonic substorms, The Radiating
Atmosphere, McCorrnac (ed.), Reidel Publishing Co.,
Dordrecht-Holland, 1971
Wilson, C. R., Auroral infrasonic wave generation mechanism, J.
Geophys. Res., vol. 77, 1820- 1843,1972
Wilson, C. R. , Auroral infrasonic waves and poleward expansions of
auroral substorrns at Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada, Geophysical Journal of
R.A.S., vol. 26, 179-181, 1971
Wilson, C. R., Auroral infrasonic waves, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 74,
1812-1836, 1969a
Wilson, C. R. , infrasonic pressure waves from the aurora, a shock
wave model, Nature, vol. 214, No. 511, 131-13 3, 1967
Wilson, C. R., Infrasonic wave generation by aurora, J. Atmos. Terr
Physics, vol. 3 7, 973 - 988,1975
Wilson, C. R. , Infrasonic waves from moving auroral electrojets, J.
of Planet. and Space Physics , vol. 17, 1107, 1969b
Wilson, C. R. , R. D. Hmsucker and J. G. Romick, An auroral
infrasonic substorm investigation using Chatanika radar and other
geophysical sensors, Planet. Space Sci., vol. 24, 1155- 1175,1976
Wilson, C. R. , Seasonal variations in auroral infrasonic wave
activity, J. Geophys. Res., vol. 78, 4801,1973
Wilson, C. R. , Trans-auroral zone aurorae infrasonic wave
observations, Planet. Space Sci., vol. 22,151-173,1974
Wilson, C.R. , Two-station auroral infrasonic wave observations,
Planet. and Space Sci., vol. 17, 1817, 1969c
Wilson, C. R. and J. D. Hargreaves, The motion of peaks in
ionospheric auroral absorption and auroral infrasonic waves, J. of
Atmos. Terr. Physics, vol 36, 1555-1560, 1974
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