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Innan Estimulando Ondas en La Magnetosfera Con Haarp
Special section on polar mesosphere-thermosphere study Portion of Lake Vostok paleoclimate record questioned
Results from a summer 2002 rocket and ground-based field cam- An anomaly discovered in the commonly used method to estimate
paign in northern Norway investigating the dynamics of the upper the age of ice samples in Lake Vostok may alter the paleoclimate
atmosphere are reported in a collection of papers in this issue. See record made from the ice core. Lake Vostok in central East Antarctica
Goldberg et al. [L24S01]. The Mountain and Convective Waves is well known for its paleoclimate ice-core record, which has been
Ascending Vertically (MaCWAVE) program focuses on the role of used to date prominent climatic transitions. Leonard et al. [L24401]
gravity waves in the structure and variability of the summer identified a surface area above the western shoreline of the lake where
mesopause. The Middle Atmosphere Dynamics and Structure the snow accumulation rate is unusually high, and they traced the
(MIDAS) program concentrated on small-scale dynamical and anomalously thick ice layers resulting from this snow to a depth of
microphysical processes near the mesopause. Data reported in this approximately 1 km. These particular layers in the Vostok ice core
special section indicate stronger than normal gravity wave activity are not mirrored in other Antarctic ice-core records. If these layers
throughout the region during that summer and unexpected circulation reflect local snow accumulation rates rather than changing climate
and temperature patterns. Together, these data suggest influences of conditions, interpretations of the ice-core data to date the sequence of
planetary wave dynamics that were not expected. In this section, global climate shifts during the last glacial period may have to be
Croskey et al. [L24S08] report on charged particle and plasma data revisited.
from rocket-borne instruments that clearly identified regions with and
without charged particles.
Low risk of volcanic break at Yucca Mountain
Cover. Launch of the MaCWAVE Terrier-Orion rocket (NASA 41.032) from Andøya Rocket Range (ARR), Norway (69.3°N,
16.0°E), on 1 July 2002 near local Midnight (2356 LT). The lower left panel shows the ALOMAR observatory near ARR with
the twin-beam Na and RMR lidars in operation. The upper left panel depicts the MIDAS measurements of temperature com-
pared with those of the Na lidar. The middle left panel shows deviation of the temperatures and winds measured during
MaCWAVE/MIDAS from a typical summer period. These items are discussed in more detail in the MaCWAVE/MIDAS special
section. See Goldberg et al. [L24S01].