The research carried out by two groups of students during the 2nd CaNoRock STEP PhD School has resulted in two papers in the Geophysical Research Letters - a prestigious geophysical journal. The two papers are related to the SWARM satellite mission and will be published in the special issue of the journal related to this space mission. The novel results are related to polar cap patches in the high latitude ionosphere, and are based the first data obtained by the SWARM satellites. Furhtermore, the paper being the outcome of the 1st CaNoRock STEP PhD School is now accepted for Journal of Geophysical Research. This is a fantastic achievement and great result of the Norway-Canada collaboration in education. Congratulations to all CaNoRock STEP PhD School students!
These are the details of the accepted papers:
A. Spicher, T. Cameron, E. M. Grono, K. N. Yakymenko, S. C. Buchert, L. B. N. Clausen, D. J. Knudsen, K. A. McWilliams J. I. Moen, Observation of Polar Cap Patches and Calculation of Gradient Drift Instability Growth Times: A Swarm Case Study, Geophys. Res. Letters 42, 2015 DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062590 (published online 20 Jan 2015) .
L. Goodwin, B. Iserhienrhien, D. M. Miles, S. Patra, Ch. van der Meeren, S.C. Buchert, J. Burchill, L. B. N. Clausen, D. J. Knudsen, K. A. McWilliams & J. I. Moen, (2015). Swarm in situ observations of F-region polar cap patches created by cusp precipitation, Geophys. Res. Letters 42, 2015 (in press, accepted 24. Jan. 2015).
L. M. Bjoland, X. Chen, Y. Jin, A.S. Reimer, Å Skjæveland, M. R. Wessel, J. K. Burchill, L. B. N. Clausen, S. E. Haaland, K. A. McWilliams, Interplanetary magnetic field and solar cycle dependence of northern hemisphere F region Joule heating, J. Geophys. Res., 2015, doi:10.1002/2014JA020586 (in press, accepted 29. Jan. 2015).