Auroras at Solar Minimum  

Links to all the reading lists for the Fairbanks 2011 Lecture Series, including this one.

Auroras at Solar Minimum

Healthy Alaska: What's In Our Fish?

Thawing Permafrost: What Does it Mean for the Arctic?

Lessons Learned From the Gulf Oil Spill

Survivor Kasatochi: Insects After the Volcanic Eruption

Whale Tales: A Thirty-Year Perspective on Humpback Whales in Alaska Waters

 The Aurora Today

What is the Aurora?

“Aurora” Flip Book

Auroral Colors and Spectra  

DLESE (Digital Library for Earth Science Education) 

NESTA (National Earth Science Teachers Association)  

Physics of the Aurora: Earth Systems 

Solar Cycle Prediction

What is the Color of Space?

The aurora watcher’s handbook / Neil Davis. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1992.

Aurora: observing and recording nature’s spectacular light show / Neil Bone. New York: Springer, 2007.

The aurora: sun-earth interactions (2^nd ed) / Neil Bone. New York: Wiley, 1996. (Also a Rasmuson Library eBook)

Exploring the secrets of the aurora (2^nd ed) / Syun-Ichi Akasofu. New York:  Springer, 2007.

Aurora / Alister Vallance Jones. Boston: Reidel, 1974.

Aurora: the mysterious northern lights / Candace Savage. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1994.

Aurora: the northern lights in mythology, history, and science / Harald Falck-Ytter.  Spring Valley, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1985.

Dayside and polar cap aurora / Per Even Sandholt, Herbert Carlson and Alv Egeland. Boston: Kluwer, 2002.

The northern lights / Lucy Jago. New York: Knopf, 2001.

Emery, Barbara A, et al. (2009). Solar wind structure sources and periodicities of auroral  electron power over three solar cycles. Journal of Atmospheric & Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 71 (10/11), 1157-1175.

D’Amicis, R. et al. (2009). Alfvénic turbulence in high speed solar wind streams as a driver for auroral activity. Journal of Atmospheric & Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 71 (10/11), 1014-1022.

Sojka, J.J., et al. (2009). The PFISR IPY observations of ionospheric climate and weather.   Journal of Atmospheric & Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 71 (6/7), 771-785.

Burch, J. L. (2003). The first two years of image. Space Science Reviews, 109 (1-4), 1-24.

Early auroras: Windows to the changing sun. (1980). Science News, 118 (2), 21-22.

Silverman, S.M. (1992). Secular variation of the aurora for the past 500 years. Reviews of  Geophysics 30 (4), 333-351.

Lund E.J. et al. (2000). Transverse ion acceleration mechanisms in the aurora at solar minimum: occurrence distributions. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 62 (6), 467-475.

Aruliah, A.L. and E. Griffin. (2001). Evidence of meso-scale structure in the high-latitude thermosphere. Annales Geophysicae 19 (1), 37-46.

Green, J.L. et al. (2004). Seasonal and solar cycle dynamics of the auroral kilometric radiation source region. Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics 109 (A5), A05223.

Gasda, S. and A.D. Richmond. (1998). Longitudinal and interhemispheric variations of auroral ionospheric electrodynamics in a realistic geomagnetic field. Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics 103 (A3), 4011-4021.

Eddy, John A. (1976). The Maunder minimum. Science, New Series 192 (4245), 1189-1202.

Elliott, H.A. et al. (2001). Solar wind influence on the oxygen content of ion outflow in the high-altitude polar cap during solar minimum conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research 106 (A4), 6067-6084.

Kozyra, J.U. et al. (1990). A theoretical study of the seasonal and solar cycle variations of stable aurora red arcs. Journal of Geophysical Research 95 (A8), 12,219-12,234.