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Dr Daniel Whiter

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Earth's aurora
  • Auroral acceleration and structuring mechanisms
  • Effects of auroral precipitation on the upper atmosphere

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Connect with Daniel

Email: D.Whiter@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 2095

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Research

Research groups

Research interests

  • Earth's aurora
  • Auroral acceleration and structuring mechanisms
  • Effects of auroral precipitation on the upper atmosphere
  • Long term changes in the ionosphere and thermosphere
  • Low-light optical instrumentation

Research projects

Active projects

EISCAT_3D: Fine-scale structuring, scintillation, and electrodynamics (FINESSE)
Revealing Particle Acceleration Physics During Substorms With Auroral Kilometric Radiation
Researchers:
Doctor Daniel Whiter

Completed projects

Deposition of hydroxyl in the upper atmosphere by hydrated meteors
Researchers:
Doctor Daniel Whiter
Sponsor: Royal Astronomical Society
How does the aurora heat the upper atmosphere?
Researchers:
Doctor Daniel Whiter
Variability of Neutral Temperature in the High-Latitude Upper Atmosphere
Field campaign to observe polar cap aurora from Svalbard
Researchers:
Doctor Daniel Whiter
Sponsor: Royal Astronomical Society
RAS Undergraduate Bursary **CLOSED**for Thomas Harrison
Researchers:
Doctor Daniel Whiter
Sponsor: Royal Astronomical Society
Field campaign to observe the upper polar atmosphere from Svalbard
Researchers:
Doctor Daniel Whiter
Sponsor: Royal Astronomical Society
Shock Aurora
Researchers:
Doctor Daniel Whiter
Sponsor: Royal Astronomical Society
Space Plasma and Magnetospheric Physics at Southampton (2021-4)
Sponsor: Science And Technology Facilities Council
Fine-scale auroral structure: Causes and effects