Earth's cusp proton aurora occurs near the prenoon and is primarily produced by the precipitation of solar energetic (2-10 keV) protons. Cusp auroral precipitation provides a direct source of energy for the high-latitude dayside upper atmosphere, contributing to chemical composition change and global climate variability. Previous studies have indicated that magnetic reconnection allows solar en...

The geomagnetic horizontal (H) ®eld from the chain of nine observatories in India are used to study the storm-time and disturbance daily variations. The peak decrease in storm-time variation in H showed signi®cant enhancements at the equatorial electrojet stations over and above the normally expected decrease due to the ring current e€ects corrected for geomagnetic latitudes. The disturbance da...

Classical escape rates of uniaxial spin systems are characterized by a prefactor differing from and much smaller than that of the particle problem, since the maximum of the spin energy is attained everywhere on the line of constant latitude: theta =const, 0 < or= phi < or = 2 pi. If a transverse field is applied, a saddle point of the energy is formed, and high, moderate, and low damping regime...

The so-called Colombo-Nyquist (Colombo, The global mapping of gravity with two satellites, 1984) rule in satellite geodesy has been revisited. This rule predicts that for a gravimetric satellite flying in a (near-)polar circular repeat orbit, the maximum resolvable geopotential spherical harmonic degree (lmax) is equal to half the number of orbital revolutions (nr) the satellite completes in on...

We present first results from SPICES, the Spectroscopic, Photometric, Infrared-Chosen Extragalactic Survey. SPICES is comprised of four ≈ 30 arcmin high Galactic latitude fields with deep BRIzJKs imaging reaching depths of ≈ 25 mag (AB) in the optical and ≈ 23 mag (AB) in the near-infrared. To date we have 626 spectroscopic redshifts for infrared-selected SPICES sources with Ks < 20 (Vega). The...

For animals that migrate long distances, the magnetic field of the earth provides not only a possible cue for compass orientation, but a potential source of world-wide positional information. At each location on the globe, the geomagnetic field lines intersect the earth's surface at a specific angle of inclination. Because inclination angles vary with latitude, an animal able to distinguish bet...

The Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) is an infrared survey of the inner Galactic plane using the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) (Fazio et al. 2004) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) (Werner et al. 2004). IRAC has four detectors, centered at approximately 3.6, 4.5, 5.8 and 8.0 μm. GLIMPSE covered a latitude range of ±1◦, and a longitude range of |l| =10◦−6...

The greater latitudinal extents of occurrence of species towards higher latitudes has been attributed to the broadening of physiological tolerances with latitude as a result of increases in climatic variation. While there is some support for such patterns in climate, the physiological tolerances of species across large latitudinal gradients have seldom been assessed. Here we report findings for...

In this note we propose an improved technique to extract envelopes of wave packets of synoptic scale Rossby waves. In the currently used techniques the wave packets are assumed to be propagating along latitude circles. In our new technique, we take into account the possibility that the waves may propagate in a direction that is not purely zonal. We demonstrate the advantages of the new techniqu...