Research project

How does the aurora heat the upper atmosphere?

Lead researchers:

Dr Daniel Whiter
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Staff

Lead researchers

Dr Daniel Whiter

Associate Professor

Research interests

Earth's aurora
Auroral acceleration and structuring mechanisms
Effects of auroral precipitation on the upper atmosphere

Connect with Daniel

Email: D.Whiter@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Characteristics of fragmented aurora-like emissions (FAEs) observed on Svalbard

Joshua Dreyer, Noora Partamies, Daniel Whiter, Pål Ellingsen, Lisa Baddeley & Stephan Buchert, 2021, Annales Geophysicae, 39(2), 277-288

DOI: 10.5194/angeo-39-277-2021

Type: article

Small-scale dynamic aurora

Ryuho Kataoka, Chris Chaston, David Knudsen, Kristina Lynch, Robert Lysak, Yan Song, Robert Rankin, Kiyoka Murase, Takeshi Sakanoi, Joshua Semeter, Tomo-Hiko Watanabe & Daniel Whiter, 2021, Space Science Reviews, 217(1)

DOI: 10.1007/s11214-021-00796-w

Type: review

A new auroral phenomenon, the anti-black aurora

A.E. Nel, M. J. Kosch, D. Whiter, B. Gustavsson & T. Aslaksen, 2021, Scientific Reports, 11(1)

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81363-9

Type: article

Multi-scale observation of two polar cap arcs occurring on different magnetic field topologies

Jade Reidy, Robert Fear, Daniel Whiter, Betty Lanchester, Andrew Kavanagh, David John Price, Joshua M Chadney, Y Zhang & Larry Paxton, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 125(8), 1-17

DOI: 10.1029/2019JA027611

Type: article

Horizontal electric fields from flow of auroral O⁺(²P) ions at sub-second temporal resolution

Sam Arthur Tuttle, Betty Lanchester, Bjorn J. Gustavsson, Daniel Whiter, Nickolay Ivchenko, Robert Fear & Mark Lester, 2020, Annales Geophysicae, 38(4), 845–859

DOI: 10.5194/angeo-38-845-2020

Type: article