Purpose

The auroral quick-look viewer of NIPR ground-based network was created to easily find various auroral phenomena (e.g., auroral breakup, discrete aurora, pulsating aurora, etc) and check weather conditions at the observatories.

Data usage policy

If users want to use quick-look (QL) images in this site for any publications and/or presentations, please contact the Principal Investigator of the auroral observation (uapdata [at] nipr.ac.jp) at National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR). We welcome collaborative research and strongly recommend users to contact us early in order to ensure that the data are suitable for their research. When the QL images are used for any publications and/or presentations, we would like to ask the users to acknowledge NIPR and send us digital files of the publications and/or presentations.

For more detailed analysis of auroral data

Please use Space Physics Environment Data Analysis Software (SPEDAS)

Aurora Quicklook Viewer

Location

Link

• Pulsating aurora project
• Optical observations in Arctic and Antarctic stations
• Interhemispheric Conjugate Aurora Monitoring website
• All-Sky Aurora Camera at South Pole Station
• Aurora over South Pole Station and McMurdo Station
• IUGONET project
• IUGONET web service
• National Institute of Polar Research
• Polar Environment Data Science Center
• Data Center for Aurora in NIPR
• Unmanned Auroral Observation network in Antarctica

References, Publications

Ogawa, Y., Y. Tanaka, A. Kadokura, K. Hosokawa, Y. Ebihara, T. Motoba, B. Gustavsson, U. Brändström, Y. Sato, S. Oyama, M. Ozaki, T. Raita, F. Sigernes, S. Nozawa, K. Shiokawa, M. Kosch, K. Kauristie, C. Hall, S. Suzuki, Y. Miyoshi, A. Gerrard, H. Miyaoka, and R. Fujii, Development of low-cost multi-wavelength imager system for studies of aurora and airglow, Polar Science, doi:10.1016/j.polar.2019.100501, 2020.

Information

The observations at South Pole and McMurdo stations have been conducted in collaboration with Kyoto University (Japan), the National Institute of Polar Research (Japan), Merrimack College (USA), and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA) with support provided from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The current award for South Pole and McMurdo stations is ANT-1643700, with the Principal Investigator of Prof. Andrew Gerrard (New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey). The observations at South Pole and McMurdo stations are also supported by Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE) program, AP02, AP44, AP0903 and AP0927 with the Principal Investigator of Dr. Yusuke Ebihara (Kyoto University, Japan).