COSPAR: Space Research. Proceedings of the Open Meetings of the Working Groups on Physical Sciences of the Twenty-First Plenary Meeting of COSPAR, Innsbruck, Austria, 29 May–10 June 1978

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Inside Front Cover, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
FOREWORD, Page xv, Cornelis de Jager
PREFACE, Pages xvii-xviii, Michael J. Rycroft
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT OF SPACE RESEARCH, 1977-1978, Pages 3-26, Cornelis de Jager
THE SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SELECTED SURFACE PHENOMENA AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE DESIGN OF AN OPTOELECTRONIC MULTISPECTRAL SYSTEM, Pages 29-33, J. Bodechtel, D. Davidts, R. Haydn
PHOTOINTERPRETATION OF COMPUTER ENHANCED LANDSAT IMAGES OF SERBIA (YUGOSLAVIA), Pages 35-39, Miroslav Hanich, Branimir Kosćec, Matija Denih
THE USE OF WEATHER SATELLITE DATA IN THE EVALUATION OF NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SULTANATE OF OMAN, Pages 41-46, Eric C. Barrett
THE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING EXPERIMENT IN THE FIRST SPACELAB PAYLOAD AND PLANS FOR FURTHER SPACELAB INSTRUMENTATION, Pages 47-54, Franz Schlude
ATMOSPHERIC AND SURFACE RADIATION BALANCE AS DETERMINED FROM SATELLITE DATA, Pages 55-58, G. Major, A. Rimoczi-Paal
ANALYSIS OF CLOUD AND PRECIPITATION FIELDS FROM SATELLITE IR AND MICROWAVE PICTURES, Pages 59-67, E.P. Dombkovskaya, S.T. Egorov
PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM THE FIRST EUROPEAN GEOSTATIONARY METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE METEOSAT, Pages 69-72, H. Billing, I. Haupt, D. Koslowsky, W. Tonn
DYNAMIC INTERPRETATION OF METEOSAT IMAGERY, Pages 73-76, Michel Desbois, Gérard Szejwach
STANDARDIZATION OF SATELLITE IMAGES OF THE NOAA SCANNING RADIOMETER SIGNALS FOR AN OBJECTIVE CLOUD CLASSIFICATION, Pages 77-80, H. Billing, M. Eckardt, I. Haupt, E. Hilt, D. Koslowsky
DYNAMIC CLASSIFICATION OF MESOSCALE CLOUD PATTERNS, Pages 81-86, Gérard Szejwach, Michel Desbois
INFRARED MEASUREMENTS OVER CIRRUS CLOUDS IN THE 6.5 AND 11.5 μM REGIONS, Pages 87-90, Gérard Szejwach, Michel Desbois
ON THE ASSIMILATION OF NON-SIMULTANEOUS SATELLITE AND CONVENTIONAL METEOROLOGICAL DATA USING STATISTICAL WEIGHTS, Pages 91-93, VI. Sharov
REVIEW OF CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM REMOTE SENSING OF THE STRATOSPHERE AND MESOSPHERE, Pages 97-106, K. Labitzke, J.J. Barnett
WATER VAPOUR AND OZONE IN THE MESOSPHERE OBSERVED FROM “SALYUT-5”, Pages 107-110, M.N. Markov, B.V. Volynov, V.M. Zholobov, V.V. Gorbatko, Yu.N. Glazkov, V.S. Petrov, Yu.S. Ivanov, N.O. Dombrovsky
COMPARISONS OF ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES DERIVED FROM FALLING SPHERE AND GRENADE EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED AT WALLOPS ISLAND IN 1975, Pages 111-114, R.O. Olsen, F.J. Schmidlin, D.U. Wright, J.R. Luers
SUMMARY OF ATMOSPHERIC OBSERVATIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS IN THE ALTITUDE REGION FROM 20 TO 80 KM, Pages 115-125, G.A. Kokin
PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE INTERCOMPARISON TEST OF US AND USSR METEOROLOGICAL SYSTEMS AT WALLOPS ISLAND AUGUST 1977, Pages 127-130, A.I. Ivanovsky, L.M. Kolomitseva, E.V. Licenko, Yu.N. Rybin, K.E. Speransky, Yu.M. Tshernishenko
PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE US-USSR METEOROLOGICAL ROCKETSONDE INTERCOMPARISON HELD AT WALLOPS ISLAND, AUGUST 1977, Pages 131-134, F.J. Schmidlin
ANNUAL VARIATION AND VARIABILITY OF METEOROLOGICAL PARAMETERS IN THE STRATOSPHERE AND MESOSPHERE, Pages 135-139, D.A. Tarasenko
STRATOSPHERIC MOTIONS AS NOTED FROM DAILY ROCKET SOUNDINGS, Pages 141-146, Melvyn E. Gelman, Keith W. Johnson, Frederic G. Finger
EQUATORIAL STRATOSPHERIC AND MESOSPHERIC STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS DURING THE YEARS 1971-74, Pages 147-152, Shyam Lai, B.H. Subbaraya, V. Narayanan
REVIEW OF DATA AND MODELS OF THE MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE, Pages 153-163, Allen E. Cole
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AFFECTING THE EXISTENCE OF SMALL ICE PARTICLES IN THE MESOSPHERE, Pages 165-168, J.J. Olivero, R.M. Bevilacqua
THE VERTICAL STRUCTURE OF PLANETARY WAVES AND ASSOCIATED MERIDIONAL TRANSPORTS OF MOMENTUM AND HEAT IN THE STRATOSPHERE AND MESOSPHERE, Pages 169-172, G. Schmitz, N. Grieger
VARIATION OF THE TURBOPAUSE LEVEL IN THE POLAR REGIONS, Pages 173-176, A.D. Danilov, A. Kalgin, A.A. Pokhunkov
CIRA 1972, RECENT ATMOSPHERIC MODELS, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN PROGRESS, Pages 179-192, L.G. Jacchia
VARIABILITY OF SOLAR ULTRAVIOLET FLUX AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE TO MODELS OF THE NEUTRAL UPPER ATMOSPHERE, Pages 193-198, G. Schmidtke
SOME FEATURES OF EUV SOLAR ACTIVITY INDICES, Pages 199-202, Karl Rawer, Günther Emmenegger, Gerhard Schmidtke
COMPARISON OF ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES ACCORDING TO CIRA-72 AND NIGHTGLOW DATA, Pages 203-206, A.I. Semenov, N.N. Shefov
INVESTIGATION OF THE 27-DAY PERIODICITY IN THERMOSPHERIC DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS, Pages 207-210, E. Illes-Almar
INCOHERENT SCATTER DATA RELATED TO THERMOSPHERIC MODELLING, Pages 211-229, D. Alcaydé
ANALYSIS OF PERTURBATIONS OF THE TOTAL DENSITY DETERMINED BY THE LOW-G ACCELEROMETER CACTUS, Pages 231-234, Jean-Paul Villain
DETERMINATION OF DENSITY SCALE HEIGHT PROFILES, Pages 235-238, Márton J. Ill
GEOMAGNETIC EFFECTS IN THE EXOSPHERE, Pages 239-242, G. Paul, H.J. Fahr
HEAO-1 OBSERVATIONS OF X-RAY FLUORESCENT EMISSION LINES FROM THE EARTH'S SUNLIT ATMOSPHERE, Pages 243-246, H.R. Rugge, D.L. McKenzie, P.A. Charles
GAS DENSITIES NEAR 230 KM FROM ORBITAL DRAG AND MASS SPECTROMETER MEASUREMENTS – A COMPARISON, Pages 247-250, M. Roemer, W. Framke, D. Krankowsky, N.W. Spencer
AEROS-B: ANNUAL VARIATIONS OF He,N,O, N2, AND Ar DURING LOW SOLAR ACTIVITY AT 4 AND 16 HOURS LOCAL TIME, Pages 251-254, W. Köhnlein, D. Krankowsky
U.V. EXTINCTION AND MASS SPECTROMETER ROCKET MEASUREMENTS OF ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION OVER WOOMERA, Pages 255-258, G. Bibbo, J.H. Carver, L.A. Davis, B.H. Horton, J.L. Lean
THERMOSPHERIC VARIATIONS AS AN INDICATOR OF MAGNETIC STORM HEATING AND CIRCULATION, Pages 259-262, W.E. Potter, D.G. Kayser, A.O. Nier
GRAVITY WAVES AND TIDAL WINDS IN THE EQUATORIAL THERMOSPHERE, Pages 263-266, B.G. Anandarao, R. Raghavarao
A GLOBAL MODEL OF D-REGION IONIZATION, Pages 269-273, A.P. Mitra, Y.V. Somayajulu
PLASMA IRREGULARITIES AND SOFT ENERGY ELECTRON FLUXES IN THE EQUATORIAL E REGION, Pages 275-277, S.P. Gupta
ELECTRIC FIELDS IN THE E REGION DURING THE COUNTER ELECTROJET, Pages 279-282, S. Prakash, S.P. Gupta, B.H. Subbaraya, R. Pandey
EFFECTS OF VERTICAL SHEARS IN THE ZONAL WINDS ON THE ELECTROJET, Pages 283-286, B.G. Anandarao, R. Raghavarao
AN INVESTIGATION OF VARIATIONS OF ION COMPOSITION AND DYNAMICS OF THE TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE FROM THE METEOR SATELLITE, Pages 287-290, G.V. Ivanov, I.A. Perkov, L.Y. Poguljaevsky, Yi.A. Romanovsky, Yi.P. Pylov, A.P. Yaitchnikov
DYNAMICAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE DAYTIME TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE INFERRED FROM VERTICAL-6 ROCKET DATA, Pages 291-295, K. Serafimov, I. Kuticv, S. Chapkunov, D. Teodosiev, L. Bankov, Tz. Dachev, G. Gdalevich, V. Gubskii, V. Istomin, V. Ershova, J. Shmilaurer
BREAKDOWN OF THE POLAR MESOSPHERIC VORTEX IN WINTER AS THE CAUSE OF MID-LATITUDE WINTER ANOMALY, Pages 297-300, D. Rees, J.M. Cisneros, J.M. Satrustegui, H. Widdel, G. Rose
STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS IN THE NEUTRAL THERMOSPHERE DURING THE D-REGION WINTER ANOMALY, Pages 301-304, G. Sonnemann, R. Knuth, K.H. Ohle, R. Reimer
A SOUNDING ROCKET CAMPAIGN FOR STUDYING HEAT DEPOSITION INTO THE IONOSPHERE DURING SUBSTORM EVENTS, Pages 305-311, B. Theile
HIGH LATITUDE IONOSPHERIC STRUCTURES, Pages 313-316, Alfred Dumbs, Eugen Neske
AURORAL EUV EMISSIONS (50-132 nm), Pages 317-320, F. Fischer, G. Schmidtke
RESULTS FROM A ROCKET MEASUREMENT OF THE NEUTRAL AND IONIZED LOWER F-REGION COMPOSITION IN ASSOCIATION WITH AN AURORAL ARC, Pages 321-324, T.A. Jacobsen, P. Lämmerzahl, E. Hettmannsperger, D. Krankowsky, J. Tröim, B.N. Maehlum
ELECTRON DENSITY VARIATIONS IN THE POLAR REGION FROM 70 TO 210 KM, Pages 325-328, Yu.K. Chasovitin, V.B. Shushkova
THERMAL PLASMA AND FIELD ALIGNED ION DRIFT AT THE BEGINNING OF AN AURORAL DISTURBANCE, Pages 331-334, Karl Spenner, Karl Rawer, Wolfgang Ott
INTERPRETATION OF COORDINATED ELECTRON DENSITY, TEMPERATURE, AND VLF-MEASUREMENTS ON BOARD INTERCOSMOS-10, Pages 335-338, A. Best, D. Johanning, F. Jiricek, H.-R. Lehmann, R. Treumann, P. Triska, C.-U. Wagner
ELF-VLF EMISSIONS, ION DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS AND ELECTRON TEMPERATURE IN THE IONOSPHERIC TROUGH, Pages 339-342, Ja.I. Likhter, V.I. Larkina, Yu.M. Mikhailov, V.V. Afonin, G.L. Gdalevich, K.B. Serafimov, L.G. Bankov, Ts.P. Dachev, N.S. Trendafilov, F. Jiricek, J. Smitauer, P. Triska, J. Vojta
ELECTRIC FIELDS AT HIGH LATITUDES IN THE TOPSIDE IONOSPHERE NEAR THE DAWN-DUSK MERIDIAN, Pages 343-346, W.J. Burke, R.C. Sagalyn, M. Smiddy, M.C. Kelley, S.T. Lai
LONGITUDINAL VARIATION OF THE HIGH ALTITUDE X-RAY FLUX DURING QUIET GEOMAGNETIC CONDITIONS, Pages 347-350, W.R. Sheldon, J.R. Benbrook, E.A. Bering, H. Leverenz, J.L. Roeder
PSE MORPHOLOGY AND MEDIUM LATITUDE RADIATION BELT ELECTRON PITCH-ANGLE DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS: A TEST OF THE PSE-MODEL, Pages 351-356, E.A. Lauter, A. Grafe, B. Nikutowski, J. Taubenheim, R. Treumann, C.-U. Wagner
HIGH AND LOW LATITUDE ENERGY SPECTRA OF PROTONS AND ELECTRONS PRECIPITATING INTO THE IONOSPHERE OBSERVED WITH THE SATELLITE “COSMOS-900”, Pages 357-362, N.M. Shutte, A.I. Puolokainen, V.F. Kopylov
THE RELATION BETWEEN 10 TO 80 keV ELECTRON PRECIPITATION OBSERVED AT GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBIT AND AURORAL RADIO ABSORPTION OBSERVED WITH RIOMETERS, Pages 363-366, J.M. Penman, J.K. Hargreaves, C.E. McIlwain
THE BARIUM ION JET EXPERIMENT OF PORCUPINE 2, Pages 367-372, E. Rieger, H. Foeppl, G. Haerendel, A. Valenzuela, I.A. Zhulin, V.I. Gaidansky, V.S. Dokoulin, Yu.Ya. Ruzhin, T.J. Hallinan
SOLAR X-RAY FLARES OBSERVED WITH THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY INSTRUMENT ON OSO-8, Pages 375-379, J.H. Parkinson, W. Ku, R. Novick, N.J. Veck
OBSERVATION OF SOLAR X-RADIATION ON BOARD “PROGNOZ-6”, Pages 381-384, V.V. Archangelsky, A.V. Baskakov, Yu.E. Charikov, Yu.G. Derevitsky, P.B. Smitriev, A.G. Enikeev, G.E. Kocharov, V.P. Lazutkov, G.A. Matvccv, V.O. Naidenov, M.I. Savchenco, A.A. Sementsov
SPECTRUM AND ANISOTROPY OF HARD FLARE X-RAYS ON THE BASIS OF MULTIPLE ELECTRON SCATTERING, Pages 385-389, G. Elwert, R.R. Rausaria
A COMPARISON OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SOLAR PROTON EVENTS FOR THE LAST TWO SOLAR MINIMA, Pages 391-394, M.A. Shea, D.F. Smart
CURRENT STATUS OF SHORT-TERM SOLAR PROTON PREDICTIONS, Pages 395-398, D.F. Smart, M.A. Shea
SEPARATION AND ANALYSIS OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATIONS IN THE APRIL 10, 1969 SOLAR FLARE PARTICLE EVENT, Pages 399-402, R. Reinhard, EC. Roelof, R.E. Gold
INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS OF SOLAR ENERGETIC PARTICLE INTENSITIES AND ANISOTROPIES OBSERVED ABOARD HELIOS 2 ON 28 MARCH 1976, Pages 403-406, J.W. Bieber, J.A. Earl, G. Green, H. Kunow, R. Müller-Mellin, G. Wibberenz
CHARGED PARTICLES PRODUCED IN SMALL SOLAR FLARES OBSERVED AT 1 AU, Pages 407-412, V.G. Kurt, Yu.I. Logachev, N.F. Pissarenko, V.G. Stolpovsky
ANALYSIS OF ENERGETIC PARTICLE EVENTS FOLLOWING SOLAR FLARES OF SEPTEMBER 24 AND NOVEMBER 22, 1977, Pages 413-416, V.G. Kurt, Yu.I. Logachev, V.G. Stolpovsky, N.F. Pissarenko, M. Gros, A. Raviart, L. Treguer, T. Gombosi
SIMULTANEOUS H(1216Å) AND He(584Å) OBSERVATIONS OF THE INTERSTELLAR WIND BY MARINER 10, Pages 417-420, J.M. Ajello, N. Witt
DUST-MAGNETOSPHERIC INTERACTIONS, Pages 423-433, D.A. Mendis
THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF THE POTENTIAL SOURCES OF INTERPLANETARY DUST, Pages 435-438, Lubor Kresák
THE DISTRIBUTION OF ORBITAL ELEMENTS OF INTERPLANETARY DUST IN THE INNER SOLAR SYSTEM AS DETECTED BY THE HELIOS SPACE-PROBE, Pages 439-442, K.D. Schmidt, E. Grün
THE ACTION OF THE POYNTING–ROBERTSON EFFECT AND RADIATION PRESSURE ON THE MASS DISTRIBUTION INDEX OF MICROMETEOROIDS, Pages 443-446, David W. Hughes
THE BRIGHTNESS/UNIT VOLUME OF THE ZODIACAL LIGHT AS DETERMINED FROM PIONEER 10, Pages 447-450, D.W. Schuerman
INVERSION OF THE ZODIACAL BRIGHTNESS INTEGRAL FOR AN OUT-OF-ECLIPTIC PHOTOMETER, Pages 451-454, R. Dumont, M. Rapaport, D. Schuerman, A.C. Levasseur-Regourd
LUNAR SURFACE GRAIN MOTION: ELECTROSTATIC CHARGING, SUPERCHARGING (ELECTRET EFFECTS) AND MECHANICAL BONDING, Pages 455-458, J.A.M. McDonnell
TERTIARY, SECONDARY AND PRIMARY IMPACT CRATER POPULATIONS ON LUNAR ROCKS: CONFIGURATIONS WHERE POPULATION INVERSION OCCURS, Pages 459-461, J.A.M. McDonnell, R.P. Flavill, R.J. Allison
LUNAR EJECTA IN HELIOCENTRIC SPACE, Pages 463-466, W.M. Alexander, J.D. Corbin
LUNAR LIBRATION REGION L4 PHOTOMETRY, Pages 467-470, Robert D. Mercer, Lawrence Dunkelman, Daniel A. Klinglesmith, Gregory C. Alvord
FLYBY- AND RENDEZVOUS-TYPE COMET MISSIONS FROM THE STANDPOINT OF LARGE-PARTICLE DUST EXPERIMENTS, Pages 471-474, Zdenek Sekanina
A CONCEPT FOR ANALYSIS OF COMETARY DUST BY LIGHT SCATTERING EXPERIMENTS ON FUTURE COMETARY PROBES, Pages 475-478, R.H. Giese, G.H. Schwehm, R.H. Zerull
DUST EXPERIMENT FOR A RENDEZVOUS-COMETARY-MISSION, Pages 479-482, B.-K. Dalmann, H. Fechtig, J. Kissel
POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITE MATERIALS EXPERIMENT TO BE FLOWN ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE LDEF MISSION, Pages 485-488, J.S. Hansen, R.C. Tennyson
MATERIALS PROCESSING IN SPACE-AN OVERVIEW OF STUDIES IN THE U.S.A., Pages 489-502, Robert J. Naumann
CRYSTAL GROWTH AND SEGREGATION IN SPACE: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT BASED ON RESULTS OBTAINED DURING THE ASTP MISSION, Pages 503-506, August F. Witt
TECHNOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS IN MICROGRAVITY - TEXUS I AND II, Pages 507-510, B. Deserno, D. Faust
INTERFIACIAL CONVECTION OBSERVED UNDER MICROGRAVITY CONDITIONS DURING THE TEXUS + I EXPERIMENT, Pages 511-514, R. Brückner
POSSIBILITIES FOR PHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS IN MATERIALS SCIENCE USING NEAR ZERO-g-CONDITIONS, Pages 515-517, H.J. Fischer, R. Kuhl
A TELEVISION PICTURE PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR THE INVESTIGATION OF CRYSTAL GROWTH PROCESSES, Pages 519-523, W. Uelhoff, K.J. Gärtner
MULTIPHASE DISPERSIONS BY CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESSING, Pages 525-529, D.R. Uhlmann, P.A. Aubourg, B. Joiner
VAPOUR GROWTH OF HgI2 IN SEALED AMPOULES, Pages 531-534, G. Perrier, J. Omaly, C. Belouet, R. Cadoret
THE THERMAL INVESTIGATION OF SOLIDIFICATIONS CARRIED OUT IN A CARTRIDGE FURNACE IN SPACE, Pages 535-543, J.J. Favier
CONVECTION UNDER NORMAL AND REDUCED GRAVITY, Pages 545-553, H. Oertel Jr.
EXPERIMENTS ON THE RELEVANCE OF MARANGONI CONVECTION FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE IN SPACE, Pages 555-558, A. Scharmann, D. Schwabe, F. Preisser, R. Oeder
THERMAL MARANGONI CONVECTION, Pages 559-562, W. Wuest, Ch.-H. Chun
CONVECTION DUE TO SURFACE-TENSION GRADIENTS, Pages 563-570, Simon Ostrach
EFFECTS OF CONVECTION ON CRYSTAL GROWTH UNDER TERRESTRIAL AND SPACE CONDITIONS, Pages 571-574, D. Langbein
MARANGONI CONVECTION IN A FLUID LAYER UNDER THE ACTION OF A TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC FIELD, Pages 575-578, G.S.R. Sarma
A MECHANISM FOR MACROSCOPIC PHASE SEPARATION IN EMULGATED LIQUID SYSTEMS, Pages 579-582, A. Bewersdorff
FLUID MECHANICS OF CONTINUOUS FLOW ELECTROPHORESIS, Pages 583-597, D.A. Saville
ELECTROFLUID DYNAMICS OF INTERFACES, Pages 599-611, L.G. Napolitano
AUTHOR INDEX, Pages 613-615