S U M M A R Y We perform a systematic analysis of crustal anisotropy along and around the Karadere–Düzce branch of the North Anatolian fault (NAF), which ruptured during the 1999 Mw 7.4 İzmit and Mw 7.1 Düzce earthquakes. A method consisting of an iterative grid search for the best shear wave splitting parameters in sliding time windows is applied to ∼22 000 measurements recorded in the 6-month...

The ITU Radiocommunication Assembly, considering a) that it is desirable that unwanted emissions of new stations in any radio service should not render existing stations, operating in accordance with the Radio Regulations (RR) in those or other services, unable to operate effectively; b) that, in some cases, passive services and services employing high-power transmitters have been allocated to ...

The following NDSC stations have been included as ozonesonde stations so far and are supposed to deliver sonde data to the NDSC data base: Ny-Ålesund, Thule, Eureka, Observatoire de Haute Provence, Mauna Loa, Lauder, Dumont d’Urville, McMurdo, South Pole. One should consider whether more stations should be included as there are more NDSC stations with ozonesonde facilities either at the site or...

We investigate the number and type of pulsars that will be discovered with the low-frequency radio telescope LOFAR. We consider different search strategies for the Galaxy, for globular clusters and for galaxies other than our own. We show an all-sky Galactic survey can be optimally carried out by incoherently combining the LOFAR stations. In a 60-day allsky Galactic survey LOFAR can find over a...