Space Weather Study Using Multipoint Techniques

Preface (L.H. Lyu, W.H. Ip). Openening address of the COSPAR president to the COSPAR Colloquium on Space Weather Study Using Multipoint Techniques (G. Haerendel).Keynote SpeechPredicting geomagnetic storms as a space weather project (S.-I. Akasofu).Solar Observations and Modeling SessionDescriptions of coronal streamer structure during the rising phase of cycle 23 (M.D. Andrews, S.T. Wu).Taiwan oscillation network: Probing the solar interior (D.Y. Chou, the TON Team).Space weather study using combined coronagraphic and in situ observations (N. Gopalswamy).The SECCHI solar plasma imager for STEREO (D.J. Michels).Tomographic analysis of solar wind structure using interplanetary scintillation (M.Kojima et al.).Polar plumes in coronal expansion (W.H. Ip).Solar coronal heating and weak fast shocks (L.C. Lee, B.H. Wu).An algorithm of calculation for the motion of looplike coronal mass ejections (T. Yeh).Interplanetary observations and modeling sessionUpstream shocks and interplanetary magnetic cloud speed and expansion: Sun,wind and earth observations (R.P. Lepping et al.).Electromagnetic electron and proton cyclotron waves in geospace: A Cassini snapshot (B. T. Tsurutani et al.).Models for the size and shape of the earth's magnetopause and bow shock (J.K. Chao et al.).Magnetospheric observations and modeling sessionInterplanetary shock effects on the nightside auroral zone, magnetosphere and ionosphere (Z.Y. Zhou, B.T. Tsurutani).Development of an integrated predictive MHD space weather model from the solar surface of the earth's upper atmosphere (C.R. Clauer et al.).Substorms and magnetic storms from the satellite charging perspective (J.F.Fennell, J.L. Roeder, H.C. Koons).Propagation of sudden impulses in the magnetosphere: Linear and nonlinear waves (D.H. Lee, M.K. Hudson).Multi-spacecraft studies in aid of space weather specification and understanding (V. Angelopoulos et al.).Low-altitude-satellite observations and modeling sessionThe electron density distribution in the polar cap: Its variability with seasons, and its response to magnetic activity (H. Laakso, R. Grard).Two-level mesopause and its variations from UARS-HRDI temperature data (S. Thulasiraman, J.B. Nee).Ground-based observations and modeling sessionThe application of high latitude ionosphere radars for space weather research (J. Roettger).Magnetospheric substorms: An inner-magnetosperic modeling perspective (R.A. Wolf et al.).High-latitude electrodynamics from a multi-array nonlinear geomagnetic model (D. Vassiliadis et al.).Magnetic impulse events and related Pc waves in the Cusp and LLBL region observed by a ground magnetometer network (H. Fukunishi, R. Kataoka, L.J. Lanzerotti).Simultaneous ground-based observations of electric and magnetic field variations near the magnetic equator for space weather study (K. Yumoto et al.).Global positioning system studies of ionospheric irregularities (T.L. Beach).Equatorial Pc5 associated with moving current vortices in the high latitude ionosphere (T. Motoba et al.).System phase bias estimation of the Chung-Li VHF radar (R.M. Kuong et al.).ROCSAT Program Session.Eefects of lightning on the middle and upper atmosphere: Some new results (D.D. Sentman et al.).Fine structure of sprites and proposed global observation (S.B. Mendle et al.).Spatial and temporal structures of sprites and eleves observed by array photometers (H. Fukunishi et al.).Observations of angel sprites (H.T. Su et al.).The atmospheric correction algorithm of ROCSAT-1/OCI data (S.J. Huang et al.).First measurement of scintillation and attenuation of 19.5 GHZ beacon signal for experimental communication payload of ROCSAT-1 (Y.H. Chu, S.P. Shih, G.H. Liu).A new method of retrieving water vapor content using ground-based radiometer with single band (S.P. Shih, Y.H. Chu).COSMIC Research Program SessionModeling, tracking and inverting the tropospheric radio occultation signals (S.V. Sokolovskiy).