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VERSIM 2008 ABSTRACTS of ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS: INVITED TALKS Looking back; an homage to colleagues D.L. Carpenter An early VLF satellite experiment A.R.W. Hughes VLF-measurement with orthogonal loop antennas and data analysis in complex plane T. Turunen SESSION 1.: Radio Wave Analysis and Inferred Results Highlights of sounding of the plasmasphere and low altitude polar regions by the Radio Plasma Imager on the IMAGE satellite D.L. Carpenter Analysis of subprotonospheric whistlers observed by DEMETER; case study J. Chum, O. Santolik and M. Parrot High accuracy analysis of whistlers measured on ground stations and LEO (Demeter and Compass) satellites D. Hamar, Cs. Ferencz, L. Bodnár, P. Steinbach, J. Lichtenberger, O.E. Ferencz and M.Parrot Comparison of equatorial plasma mass density and electron density at L=1.85 inferred from ULF and VLF measurements B. Heilig, P. Kovács, J. Lichtenberger, J. Reda, K. Pajunpää and T. Raita Automatic Whistler Detector and Analyzer: retrieval of plasmaspheric electron density profiles from whistler data J. Lichtenberger, Cs. Ferencz, L. Bodnár, P. Steinbach, D. Hamar, A. R. W. Hughes, A. B. Collier, C. J. Rodger and M. A. Clilverd A new whistler inversion model J. Lichtenberger, Cs. Ferencz, L. Bodnár, P. Steinbach, D. Hamar, A. R. W. Hughes, A. B. Collier, C. J. Rodger and M. A. Clilverd The effects of polarizations of the ELF-VLF waves in waveguide Earth - ionosphere A.A. Ostapenko, E.E. Titova, T. Turunen, J. Manninen and T. Raita Properties of the low ionosphere C-region, using the South America VLF NETwork (SAVNET) J.-P. Raulin, H. Rivero, F.C. Bertoni, E. Correia, P. Kaufmann, W. Guevara, R. Rodriguez, G. Fernandez and A. D. Lago ELF/VLF waves of magnetospheric and terrestrial origin: 16 years of continuous observations in Antarctica A.J. Smith, R.B. Horne and N.P. Meredith Incident directions of fractional-hop whistlers recorded at LEO - meridional, oblique wave propagation in the ionosphere P. Steinbach, Cs. Ferencz, J. Lichtenberger, D. Hamar, O.E. Ferencz and M. Parrot VLF-measurement with orthogonal loop antennas and data analysis in complex plane T. Turunen Whistler modulation of VLF emission intensity T. Turunen, J. Manninen and T. Raita SESSION 2.: Lightning-Associated Effects in the Upper Atmosphere and Ionosphere TLE observations in central Europe from Hungary J. Bór, G. Sátori and H.D. Betz Whistler-lightning correlations: tetrachoric index and similarity measures A.B. Collier, A.R.W. Hughes, J. Lichtenberger and P. Steinbach Lightning induced whistlers, their penetration through the ionosphere J. Fiser, J. Chum, F. Jiřicek, O. Santolik, M. Parrot and G. Diendorfer Ionospheric density perturbations and optical emissions due to horizontal in-cloud lightning EMP R.A. Marshall and U.S. Inan TLE events observed at AGO and their ELF counterparts. Influence of SPE on Schumann resonance parameters Adriena Ondrášková, Sebastián Ševcik, Pavel Kostecký, Juraj Tóth and Róbert Kysel Improvements in the WWLLN network: growing detection efficiencies for "big lightning" events C.J. Rodger, J.B. Brundell, R.H. Holzworth, E.H. Lay and R.L. Dowden Variability of global lightning on different time scales as shown by Schumann Resonances G. Sátori, I. Lemperger, J. Bór and T. Nagy Night time D-region ionospheric electron densities profiles as estimated from tweek radio atmospheric measurements at Indian low latitude stations R. Singh, B. Veenadhari and A.K. Maurya SESSION 3.: Theory and Simulations in Wave and Space Plasma Studies Some new possibilities of the magnetosphere diagnostic by characteristics of whistler emissions P.A. Bespalov Exact solution of Maxwell's equations in inhomogeneous moving media Cs. Ferencz Guided transient signals in space plasmas ? theory and observation O.E. Ferencz, P. Steinbach, Cs. Ferencz, J. Lichtenberger, D. Hamar, J.J. Berthelier, F. Lefeuvre, M. Parrot, V. Korepanov, G. Mikhajlova, Yu. Mikhajlov and V.D. Kuznetzov On the minimal set of cold background plasma parameters governing the electron whistler dispersion law above the ion cut-off frequency in a multi-ion plasma B. Lundin and C. Krafft Modelling the ionospheric Alfven resonance with transmission lines Anna Odzimek and Andrzej Kulak Theory and simulation of the generation of whistler-mode chorus and acceleration of relativistic electrons Y. Omura, Y. Katoh and D. Summers Ray-tracing analysis of fractional-hop whistlers recorded by DEMETER in relation to the IRI model O. Santolik, M. Parrot and J. Chum Nonlinear growth of quasi-electrostatic cyclotron harmonics propagating transversely to the ambient magnetic field D.R. Shklyar SESSION 4.: Man-made, MLR and Triggered Emissions Key features of some unusual VLF emissions B. Delport and A.B. Collier A New Model for the VLF Triggered Emission Instability A. Gibby, U.S. Inan and T.F. Bell VLF triggered emissions excited by the HAARP HF Ionospheric Heater M. Golkowski, U.S. Inan and M.B. Cohen Separate lines in MLR event can come from different source regions J. Manninen, T. Raita and T. Turunen Review of MLR observations made in Finland in 1993-2008 J. Manninen, T. Raita and T. Turunen Large scale survey of MLR events observed by DEMETER F. Nemec, Michel Parrot, Ondrej Santolik, C.J. Rodger, M. Rycroft, M. Hayosh, D. Shklyar, A. Demekhov MLR and particles observed by DEMETER: a love affair? M. Parrot and J.A. Sauvaud Ground-based VLF transmitter signals observed from space: ducted or nonducted? C.J. Rodger, M.A. Clilverd, R.J. Gamble, N.P. Meredith, M. Parrot, J-J. Berthelier and N.R. Thomson Artificial aurora triggering by high-power radio emission from the SURA facility as observed on board of the International Space Station Yu.Ya. Ruzhin, V.D. Kuznetsov, G.F. Karabadzhak, Yu.A. Plastinin, B.A. Khmelinin, V.L Frolov and G.P. Komrakov SESSION 5.: Particle precipitation Remote sensing space weather events: the AARDDVARK network M.A. Clilverd, C.J. Rodger and the AARDDVARK team Modelling the impact of a relativistic electron precipitation event on the stratosphere M.A. Clilverd, Annika Seppälä and C.J. Rodger Satellite and ground based observations of a large-scale electron precipitation event - preliminary results R.J. Gamble, C.J. Rodger, M.A. Clilverd, N.R. Thomson, M. Parrot, J.-A. Sauvaud and J-J. Berthelier Radiation belt precipitation due to man-made VLF transmissions: satellite observations R.J. Gamble, C.J. Rodger, M.A. Clilverd, N.R. Thomson, S.L. Stewart, R.J. McCormick, M. Parrot, J-A. Sauvaud and J-J. Berthelier Seasonal differences in electron precipitation driven by lightning E.S. Gemelos, U.S. Inan, M. Walt, J-A. Sauvaud, M. Parrot DEMETER Observations of Lightning-induced Electron Precipitation Bursts in the Vicinity of the South Atlantic Anomaly U.S. Inan, D. Piddyachiy, M. Parrot and J-A. Sauvaud Observations of relativistic electron precipitation from the radiation belts driven by EMIC waves T. Raita, C.J. Rodger, M.A. Clilverd, A. Seppälä, S. Dietrich, N.R. Thomson and Th. Ulich Energetic particle precipitation signatures in surface temperature variability? A. Seppälä, M.A. Clilverd and E. Rozanov Decade of narrow-band VLF observations in Hungary ? first results of an automated detection algorithm of enhanced ionization patches in the mesosphere P. Steinbach, J. Lichtenberger and Cs. Ferencz Numerical simulation of perturbations on VLF signals caused by ionization enhancement in the nighttime ionosphere D. Šulic, D. Grubor, V. Zigman and V. Sreckovic SESSION 6.: Special Wave Processes and Applications FLR theory and monitoring of the magnetosphere and the Earth's crust E. Fedorov, V. Pilipenko and N. Yagova Correlating magnetic field variations and ULF data E.D. Schmitter Possible detection of synchronous whistlers T. Turunen, T. Raita and J. Manninen An empirical model for high latitude ULF geomagnetic noise N. Yagova, V. Pilipenko and L. Baransky POSTERS: P1      VR2 - A general purpose sampler and wave analyzer L. Bodnár, P. Szegedi, J. Lichtenberger, Cs. Ferencz P2      Advanced SAS2 Spaceborne Analyzer System L. Bodnár, P. Szegedi, J. Lichtenberger, Cs. Ferencz P3      UltraMSK: A VLF radio receiver J.B. Brundell P4      Software Phase and Amplitude Logger R. L. Dowden and C. D. D. Adams P5      Pulsating particle precipitation, VLF chorus and Pc5 waves: Case study November 24, 2006 J. Manninen N.G. Kleimenova , O.V. Kozyreva and T.Turunen P6      Examples of ELF-VLF observations made in Finland J. Manninen, T. Raita and T. Turunen P7      The PIPER Instrument (Photometric Imaging of Precipitation of Electron Radiation) applied to sprites and elves R.A. Marshall, U.S. Inan and R.T. Newsome