Magnetosphere – ionosphere coupling process in the auroral region estimated from auroral tomography

Yoshimasa Tanaka1, Yasunobu Ogawa1, Akira Kadokura1, Björn Gustavsson2, Kirsti Kauristie3, Daniel K Whiter4, Carl-Fredrik T Enell5, Urban Brandstrom6, Tima Sergienko6, Noora Partamies7, Alexander Kozlovsky8, Hiroshi Miyaoka9 and Michael J Kosch10, (1)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, (2)UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Department of Physics and Technology, Tromsø, Norway, (3)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (4)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)EISCAT Scientific Association, Kiruna, Sweden, (6)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden, (7)University Centre in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway, (8)Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, Sodankylä, Finland, (9)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (10)South African National Space Agency, Hermanus, South Africa