Publications in refereed journals (most recent publications first)


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Belova, E., M. Smirnova, M. T. Rietveld, B. Isham, S. Kirkwood, and T. Sergienko (2008), First observation of the overshoot effect for polar mesosphere winter echoes during radiowave electron temperature modulation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L03110, doi:10.1029/2007GL.

Osepian , A.V. Tereschenko , P. Dalin , S. Kirkwood2, The role of atomic oxygen concentration in the ionization balance of the lower ionosphere during solar proton events, in press Ann. Geophys. 2008

T. Narayana Rao, J. Arvelius, and S. Kirkwood , Climatology of Tropopause Folds over a European Arctic Station - ESRANGE , submitted to J. Geophys. Res., Dec. 2007

Belova, E., R. Latteck, W. Singer, P. Dalin, S. Kirkwood, reflectivities and spectral widths of PMSE observed with the ALWIN MST and EISCAT VHF radars simultaneously, submitted, to Ann.. Geophys. April 2007

Belova1, Alla, Sheila Kirkwood1 , Donal Murtagh2*, Nick Mitchell3*, Werner Singer4*, Wayne Hocking5, Planetary wave propagation in the middle atmosphere from Odin satellite data and ground-based instruments in summer , submitted to Ann. Geophys. Dec 2007

Kirkwood, S., Wolf, I., Dalin, P., Nilsson, H., Mikhailova, D., Belova, E., Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes at Wasa, Antarctica ( 73 ° S ) – first observations and comparison with 68° N, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L15803, doi:10.1029/2007GL, 2007

Belova, Alla, Sheila Kirkwood, Uwe Raffalski, Gerhard Kopp, Gerd Hochschild and Joachim Urban, 5-day planetary waves as seen by Odin satellite and the ground-based Kiruna millimeter wave radiometer in January-March 2005, Canadian Journal of Physics, in press 2007

Kirkwood, S., Dalin, P., Réchou, A. Noctilucent clouds observed from the UK and Denmark – trends and variations over 43 years, Ann. Geophys., in press, august 2007

Belova, E., P. Dalin, and S. Kirkwood, Polar mesosphere summer echoes: a comparison of simultaneous observations at three wavelengths, Annales Geophysicae, 25, , 2007.

Kirkwood, S., Polar Mesosphere WINTER Echoes – a review of recent results, J. Adv. Space Res. 40(6), 751-757, 2007, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2007.01.024

Dalin, P., S. Kirkwood, H. Andersen, O. Hansen, N. Pertsev,V., Romejko, Comparison of long-term Moscow and Danish NLC observations: statistical results, Annales Geophysicae ,24 , , 2006

Kirkwood, S., P. Chilson, E. Belova, P. Dalin, I. Häggström, M. Rietveld, W. Singer, Infrasound – the cause of Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes ?, Ann. Geophys., 24: 475 - 491 , 2006.

Kirkwood, S., E. Belova , U. Blum , C. Croskey , P. Dalin , K.-H. Fricke , R.A. Goldberg , J. Manninen, J. D. Mitchell , F. Schmidlin , Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes during MaCWAVE, Ann. Geophys. 24, , 2006.

Blum, U., G. Baumgarten, A. Schöch, S. Kirkwood, B. Naujokat, and K. H. Fricke, The meteorological background situation at polar latitudes during winter 2002/2003 in the context of the MaCWAVE campaign, Ann. Geophys. 24, , 2006

A. D. Robinson, G. A. Millard, F. Danis, M. Guirlet, N. R. P. Harris, A. M. Lee, J. D. McIntyre, J. A. Pyle, J. Arvelius, S. Dagnesjo, S. Kirkwood, H. Nilsson, D. W. Toohey, T. Deshler, F. Goutail, J-P. Pommereau, J. W. Elkins, F. Moore, E. Ray, U. Schmidt, A. Engel, and M. Müller. Ozone loss derived from balloon-borne tracer measurements in the 1999/2000 arctic winter. Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 5(5):, June 2005. SRef-ID: /acp/.

E. Belova, S. Kirkwood, J. Ekeberg, A. Osepian, I. Häggström, H. Nilsson, M. Rietveld, Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes Observed Simultaneously by EISCAT VHF and ESRAD MST Radars, Ann. Geophys. 23, , 2005

T. Narayana Rao, J. Arvelius , S. Kirkwood , R. Kivi, Characteristics of tropopause folds over Arctic latitudes J. Geophys. Res, 110 , doi:10.1029/2004JD , 2005

Osepian, A., Kirkwood, S., Cosmic radio noise absorption bursts caused by solar wind shocks, Ann. Geophys. 22, , 2004

Dalin, P., S. Kirkwood, A. Moström, K. Stebel, P. Hoffman, W. Singer, A case study of gravity waves in noctilucent clouds, Annales Geophysicae 22, , 2004

Stebel, K., U. Blum, K.-H. Fricke, S. Kirkwood, N. Mitchell, A. Osepian, Joint radar/lidar observations of possible aerosol layers in the winter mesosphere, J. Atmos. Sol. Terr. Phys., 66, 957-970, 2004

V. Barabash, S. Kirkwood, A. Feofilov, and A. Kutepov. Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes during July 2000 Solar Proton Event, Annales Geophysicae, Vol. 22, pp 759-771, 2004

Narayana Rao, T., J. Arvelius, S. Kirkwood and P.Von der Gathen Climatology of ozone the troposphere and lower stratosphere over European Arctic, Adv. Space. Res. , 2004

Friedrich, M., M. Harrich, K.M. Torkar, and S. Kirkwood, The disturbed auroral ionosphere based on EISCAT and rocket data, Adv. Space. Res 33, 949-955, 2004

Narayana Rao, T., S. Kirkwood, Johan Arvelius, Peter von der Gathen, and Rigel Kivi. Climatology of UTLS Ozone and the ratio of Ozone and Potential Vorticity over Northern Europe, J. Geophys. Res. 108 (D22), doi:10.1029/2003JD, 2003

Enell, Carl-Fredrik, Urban Brändström, Björn Gustavsson, Sheila Kirkwood, Kerstin Stebel, and Åke Steen. Case study of the development of polar stratospheric clouds using bistatic imaging. Ann. Geophys. 21, , 2003.

Belova, E., Kirkwood S., P. B. Chilson, M.T. Rietveld, Reply to Comment, J. Geophys. Res., 108, D23, 4728, doi:10.1029/2003JD , 2003

Belova, E., P. B. Chilson, S. Kirkwood, M.T. Rietveld, The response time of PMSE to Heating, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D8), 2003.

Ogawa, T., N. F. Arnold, S. Kirkwood, N. Nishitani, M. Lester, Finland HF and Esrange MST radar observations of polar mesosphere summer echoes, Ann. Geophysicae 21, , 2003

Kirkwood, S., and K. Stebel, Influence of planetary waves on noctilucent cloud occurrence over NW Europe, J. Geophys. Res., 108(D8), 8440, doi:10.1029/2002JD, 2003.

Kirkwood, S. , V. Barabash, E. Belova, H. Nilsson, N. Rao,,K. Stebel, A. Osepian, Phillip B. Chilson, Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes during Solar Proton Events, Advances in Polar Upper Atmosphere Research, 16, 111-125, 2002

Kirkwood, S. V. Barabash, B. U. E. Brändström, A. Moström, K. Stebel, N. Mitchell, W. Hocking, Noctilucent Clouds, PMSE and 5-day Planetary Waves : a Case Study, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 10.1029/2001GL , 24 May 2002

L. R. Lait, M. R. Schoeberl, P. A. Newman, T. McGee, J. Burris, E. V. Browell, E. Richard, G. O. Braathen, B. R. Bojkov, F. Goutail, P. von der Gathen, E. Kyro, G. Vaughan, H. Kelde, S. Kirkwood, P. Woods, V. Dorokhov, I. Zaitcev, Z. Litynska, A. Benesova, P. Skrivankova, H. De Backe, J. Davies, T. Jorgensen, and I. S. Mikkelsen, Ozone Loss from Quasi-Conservative Coordinate Mapping during the SOLVE Campaign, JGR-Atmospheres., 10.1029/2001JD 12 September 2002

Barabash, V., S. Kirkwood, P. Chilson, Are variations in PMSE intensity affected by energetic particle precipitation ? Ann. Geophys. . 20, 539-545, 2002

Phillip B. Chilson, Robert Tian-You Yu, D. Palmer, and Sheila Kirkwood, Aspect sensitivity measurements of polar meshosphere summer echoes using coherent radar imaging, Annales Geophysicae, 20, 2, 213-223, 2002.

Friedrich, M., Posch, M., Kirkwood, S., Stebel, K., Torkar, K., A novel, high-resolution temperature sensor for balloon applications, Adv. Space. Res., ,30 (5), , 2002

Friedrich, M., Torkar, K, Harrich, M., Pilgrim, R., Kirkwood, S, On merging empirical models of auroral and non-auroral latitudes, Adv. Space. Res., 29 (6), 929-935, 2002

Belova, E., P.B. Chilson, M. Rapp, and S. Kirkwood, Electron temperature dependence of PMSE power: Experimental and modelling results, Advances in Space Research , 28, 7, , 2001

Kirkwood, S., Osepian, A., Quantitative description of electron precipitation during auroral absorbtion events in the morning / noon local-time sector. J. Atmos. Sol.. Terr. Phys., 63, , 2001

Osepian, A., S. Kirkwood, N. Smirnova, Variations of electron density and energetic spectra of the precipitating electrons during auroral substorms by incoherent scatter data, Cosmic Research 39 (3), 311-315, 2001

Chilson, P., S. Kirkwood, I. Häggström, Frequency domain interferometry mode observations of PMSE using the EISCAT VHF radar, Ann. Geophys., 18 (12), , 2001.

Kirkwood, S. ; and A. Osepian, Pitch angle diffusion coefficients and precipitating electron fluxes inferred from EISCAT radar measurements at auroral latitudes, J. Geophys. Res.. 106 ,. 5565, 2001

Belova, E., Kirkwood, S. and Tammet, H., The effect of magnetic substorms on near-ground atmospheric current, Ann. Geophys. 18 (12), , 2001.

Belova, E., Kirkwood, S., Nielsen, E., Tammet, H., The ground-level atmospheric-current response to a magnetic substorm, , Proc. 5th international Conference on Substorms, ESA SP-443, July 2000

Chilson, P.B., E. Belova, M. T. Rietveld, S. Kirkwood, U-P. Hoppe, First artificially induced modulation of PMSE using the EISCAT heating facility, Geophys. Res. Lett, 27, , 2000

Roldugin, V. C., Kirkwood, S., Maltsev, Yu. P., Galakhov, A.A., EISCAT radar reflection from the vicinity of a noctilucent cloud, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth B , 25 (5-6), 507-509, 2000.

Stebel, K., V. Barabash, S. Kirkwood, J. Siebert and K.-H. Fricke, Polar mesosphere summer echoes and noctilucent clouds: Simultaneous and common-volume observations by radar, lidar and CCD camera, Geophys. Res. Let.t, 27, 661-664, 2000

Osepian A. P., Smirnova N.V., Kirkwood S. Precipitation of energetic electrons into the high-latitude ionosphere in the morning local time sectors., Cosmic Research v38, No. 1, p 33-37, 2000

Kirkwood, S. H. Nilsson, High-latitude sporadic-E and other thin layers - the role of magnetospheric electric fields, Space Science Reviews 91 (3/4):579-613, February 2000.

Friedrich, M., Kirkwood, S., The D-region background at high latitudes, Adv. Space, Sci, 25(1), 15-23, 2000

A. P. Osepian, N. V. Smirnova, and S. Kirkwood Diurnal and Seasonal Variations of the Energy Spectrum of Precipitating Electrons Derived from Electron Concentration Measurement Data Obtained by the Method of Incoherent Scattering of Radio Waves, Cosmic Research, Vol. 37, p. 326-333, No. 4, 1999

Chilson, P., S. Kirkwood, A. Nilsson, The Esrange MST radar : a brief introduction and procedure for range validation using balloons, Radio Sci., 34, 427-436, 1999

Réchou, A., V. Barabash, P. Chilson, S. Kirkwood, T. Savitskaia, K. Stebel, Mountain wave motions determined by the Esrange MST radar, Ann. Geophys, 17, 957 - 970, 1999

Kirkwood, S. Réchou, A., Planetary-wave modulation of PMSE, Geophys. Res. Lett. 25 , .4509 - 4512, 1998

Barabash, V., P. Chilson, S. Kirkwood, Réchou, A., K. Stebel, Investigations of the possible relationship between PMSE and tides using a VHF MST radar, Geophysical Research Letters, 25, , 1998.

Kirkwood, S., V. Barabash, P. Chilson, A. Réchou, K. Stebel , P. Espy, J. Stegman, G. Witt, The 1997 PMSE season - its relation to winds, temperature and water vapour, Geophys. Res. lett, 25, , 1998

Nilsson, H., S. Kirkwood and T. Moretto, Incoherent scatter radar observations of the cusp acceleration region and cusp field-aligned currents, J. Geophys. Res.103, , 1998

Kirkwood, S., Thin ion layers in the high-latitude lower ionosphere, Adv. Space. Res 19, (1)149-(1)158, 1997

H. Nilsson, S. Kirkwood, J. Lilensten, M. Galand, Enhanced Incoherent Scatter Plasma lines, Ann. Geophys. 14, , 1996

Olsson, A, Persson M.A.L., Opgenoorth, H.J., Kirkwood, S., Particle precipitation in auroral break-ups and westward traveling surges, J. Geophys. Res. 101, , 1996

Blix, T.A., Thrane, E.V., Kirkwood, S., Sudan, R.N., Experimental evidence for unstable waves in the lower E/upper D-region excited near the bisector between the electric field and the drift velocity, Geophys. Res. Lett 23, , 1996

Kirkwood, S., Lower thermosphere mean temperatures, densities and winds measured by EISCAT : seasonal and solar-cycle effects, J. Geophys. Res. 101, , 1996

Nilsson, H., Kirkwood, S., Björnå, N., Bistatic measurements of incoherent-scatter plasma lines, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 58, 175-188, 1996

Osepian, A., Kirkwood, S., High-energy electron fluxes derived from EISCAT electron-density profiles, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 58, 479-488, 1996

Kirkwood, S., von Zahn, U., Fricke, K.-H., EISCAT and ALOMAR : Potential for cooperative science, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys.58, 337-348, 1996

Osepian, A., Kirkwood, S., Smirnova, N., Energetic electron precipitation during auroral events observed by incoherent scatter radar, Adv. Space Res.17 , (11)149-(11)155, 1996.

Kirkwood, S., Osepian, A., Quantitative studies of energetic particle precipitation using incoherent-scatter radar, J. Geomagn. Geoelectr., 47, 783-799, 1995

Kirkwood, S., Nilsson, H., Lilensten, J., Galand, M., Strongly enhanced incoherent-scatter plasma lines in aurora, J. Geophys. Res., 100, , 1995

Kirkwood, S., Cho, J., Hall, C.M., Hoppe,U.-P., Murtagh, D..P., Stegman, J. Swartz,W.E. , van Eyken, A.P., Wannberg, G., Witt, G., A comparison of PMSE and other ground-based observations during the NLC-91 campaign, J. Atmos. terr. Phys. 57, 35-44, 1995

Nilsson,H., Kirkwood, S, Eliasson,L., Norberg, O., Boehm, M., Clemmons, J., The Ionospheric signature of the cusp - a case study using Freja and the Sondrestrom radar , Geophys. Res. Lett. 21, , 1994

Blix,T.A., Thrane, E.V., Kirkwood, S., Schlegel, K., Plasma instabilities in the lower E-region observed during the DYANA campaign, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 56, , 1994

Ranta, H., Ranta, A., Stauning, P., Rapoport, Z., Sinelnikov, V.M., Kirkwood, S., Lastovicka, J., Knyazev, A.K., Morphology of the D region at high latitudes in the northern hemisphere during the campaign DYANA in 1990, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys., 56, , 1994

Gonzalez, N. Hauchecorne,A., Kirkwood,S., Lübken, F.J., Manson, A.H., Mourier, A., Schmidlin, F.J., Schminder, R., Singer, W., Widdel, H.U., Intercomparison of simultaneous remote and in situ wind measurements, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys.,56, , 1994

Kirkwood, S., von Zahn, U., Formation mechanisms for low-altitude Es and metal layers - results from the METAL campaign, J. Geophys. Res., 98, , 1993

Alpers,M., Blix, T., Kirkwood, S., Krankowski, D., Lübken, F.-J., Lutz, S., von Zahn, U., First simultaneous measurements of neutral and ionized iron densities in the upper mesosphere, J. Geophys. Res.98, 275-284, 1993

Kirkwood, S. : Modelling the undisturbed high-latitude E region, Advances in Space Research, 12 (6)329-(6)332,1992 also 13 (3)102-(3)104, 1993

Kirkwood, S., von Zahn, U. : The role of magnetospheric electric fields in producing auroral zone thin layers, Advances in Space Research, 12 (10) 225 - (10) 228, 1992

Kirkwood, S., Björnå, N., Electron temperatures determined by tristatic plasma-line observations with the EISCAT UHF incoherent scatter radar, Geophys. Res. Lett, 19, 661-664, 1992

Kirkwood, S., Anomalous ion layers in the high-latitude winter E region, Geophysical Research Letters, 18, , 1991

Kirkwood, S., von Zahn, U. : On the role of auroral electric fields in the formation of low altitude sporadic E and sudden sodium layers, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys. 53, 389-407,1991

Kirkwood, S., Eliasson, L. : Energetic particle precipitation in the substorm growth phase measured by EISCAT and Viking, J. Geophys. Res. 95, , 1990

Collis,P.N., Kirkwood,S. :Discrete layers of D-region ionisation in the high-latitude ionosphere, Advances in Space Research , 10, (10)44-(10)49, 1990.

Kirkwood,S., Collis,P.N.: Gravity wave generation of simultaneous auroral sporadic E layers and sudden neutral sodium layers, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys. 51, 259-268, 1989

Opgenoorth,H.J.,Bromage,B.,Fontaine,D.,La Hoz,C., Huuskonen,A., Kohl,H., Lövhaug,U.P., Wannberg,G., Gustafsson,G., Murphree,J.S., Eliasson,L., Marklund,G., Potemra,T.A., Kirkwood,S., Nielsen,E., Wahlund,J.E. : Coordinated Observations with EISCAT and the Viking satellite - the decay of a westward traveling surge, Ann. Geophys. 7, 479-500, 1989.

Kirkwood,S.,Eliasson,L.,Opgenoorth,H.,Pellinen-Wannberg,,A., A study of auroral electron acceleration using the EISCAT radar and the Viking satellite, Advances in Space Research 9, (5)49-(5)52, 1989.

Kirkwood,S.,Opgenoorth,H.,Murphree,J,S.: Ionospheric conductivities, electric fields and currents associated with auroral substorms measured by the EISCAT radar, Planet. Space Sci., 36, , 1988

Björnå, N., Kirkwood, S.: Derivation of ion composition from a combined ion-line/ plasma-line incoherent scatter experiment, J. Geophys. Res. 93, , 1988

Kirkwood,S.,Collis,P.N.: The high latitude lower ionosphere observed by EISCAT, Advances in Space Research 7(6), 83-86, 1987

Collis,P.N.,Kirkwood,S.: Localised features in the auroral D-region observed by EISCAT, Advances in Space Research, 7(10), 349-352, 1987

Kirkwood,S.:Seasonal and tidal variations of neutral temperatures and densities in the high-latitude lower thermosphere measured by EISCAT, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys. 48, 817-826, 1986

Kirkwood,S.,Collis,P.N.,Schmidt,W.: Calibration of electron densities for the EISCAT UHF radar, J. Atmos. Terr. Phys. 48, 773-776, 1986

Collis,P.N.,Kirkwood,S.,Hall,C.: D-region signatures of substorm growth phase and onset observed by EISCAT, J.Atmos. Terr. Phys. 48, 807-816, 1986

Björnå,N.,Kirkwood,S.: Observations of natural plasma lines in the E region and lower F-region with the EISCAT UHF radar, Ann. Geophys., 4, 137-144, 1986

Hargreaves,J.K., Burns,J., Kirkwood,S.: EISCAT studies of F-region irregularities using beam scanning, Radio Sci., 20, 745-754, 1985

Flå,T.,Kirkwood,S.,Schlegel,K.: Collision frequency measurements in the high latitude E region with EISCAT, Radio Sci.,20,785-794, 1985

Kirkwood,S.C.,Hutton,V.R.S.,Sik,J.: A geomagnetic study of the Great Glen Fault, Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc. 66, 481-490, 1981

Sik,J.,Hutton,V.R.S.,Dawes,G.,Kirkwood,S.C.: A geomagnetic variation study of Scotland. Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc. 66, 491-512, 1981

Hutton,V.R.S.,Dawes,G.,Ingham,M.,Kirkwood,S.,Mbipom,E.,Sik,J.: Recent studies of time variations of natural electromagnetic fields in Scotland, Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 24, 66-87, 1981

Crampin,S., Kirkwood,S.C.: Velocity variations in systems of anisotropic symmetry. J. Geophys. 49, 35-42, 1981

Kirkwood,S.C., Crampin,S.: Surface wave propagation in an ocean basin with an anisotropic upper mantle : observations of polarization anomalies, Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc. 64, 487-497, 1981

Kirkwood,S.C., Crampin,S.: Surface wave propagation in an ocean basin with an anisotropic upper mantle : numerical modelling, Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc. 64, 463-485, 1981

Kirkwood,S.C.: The significance of isotropic inversion of anisotropic surface wave dispersion, Geophys. J. R. Astr. Soc. 55, 131-142, 1978



Publications in conference proceedings and reports



S. Kirkwood, A. Belova, D. Murtagh , A. Réchou , D. Goldberg, , F. Schmidlin, Polar mesocyclones and their extension to the UTLS – a case study using ESRAD , Odin and MaCWAVE radiosondes, Proceedings of the ESA/PAC meeting in Visby, Sweden, June 2007

Kirkwood, S., E. Belova, P. Chilson, P. Dalin, J. Ekeberg, I. Häggström, A. Osepian, The nature of VHF radar echoes from the mesosphere, Proc. XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), New Delhi , India, October , ISBN .

Singer, W., R. Latteck, M. Friedrich, P. Dalin, S. Kirkwood, N. Engler, D. Holdsworth, D-region electron densities obtained by differential absorption and phase measurements with a 3-MHz Doppler radar, Proceedings of the 17th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related research, Sandefjord, Norway, 30 May- 2 June 2005, ESA-SP-590, 233-237, 2005.

Sheila Kirkwood, Evgenia Belova, Philip Chilson, Peter Dalin, Jonas Ekeberg, Ingemar Häggström, Aleftina Osepian, ESRAD / EISCAT Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes during Magic and Roma, Proceedings of the 17th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related research, Sandefjord, Norway, 30 May- 2 June 2005, ESA-SP-590, 115-119, 2005

Gumbel., J., Waldermarsson, T, Giovane,F., Khaplanov, M., Hedin, J., Karlsson, B., Lossow, S., Megner, L., Stegman, J., Fricke, K.-H., Blum, U., Voelger, P., Kirkwood, S., Dalin, P., Sternovsky, Z., Robertson, S., Horanyi, M., Stroud, R., Siskind, D.E., Meieir, R.R., Blum, J., Summers, M., Plane, J.M.C., Mitchell, N.J., Rapp, M., The MAGIC rocket campaign : an overview, Proceedings of the 17th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related research, Sandefjord, Norway, 30 May- 2 June 2005, ESA-SP-590, 139-143, 2005

Latteck, R., Singer, W., Kirkwood, S., Jönsson, L.O., Eriksson, H., Observation of mesosphere summer echoes with calibrated VHF radars at latitudes between 54°N and 69°N in summer 2004, Proceedings of the 17th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related research, Sandefjord, Norway, 30 May- 2 June 2005, ESA-SP-590, 121-125, 2005

Kirkwood, Sheila, Evgenia Belova, Daria Mikhaylova, Sven Lidström, Air-Earth-Current Observations to study solar wind effects on the global electric circuit, Swedish Polar research Secretariat, Yearbook 2004, pp 80-82

Raffalski, U., S. Kirkwood, Atmospheric measurements in Kiruna and Wasa Antarctica – present status and ideas for the future, Proceedings of the first Ny-Ålesund – Pallas – Sodankylä atmospheric research workshop, Pallas, Finland, 1-3 March 2004, ed. J. Paatero, K. Holmén, Finnish Metorological Institute, 2004

S. Kirkwood, E. Belova, P. Dalin , K.-H. Fricke , U. Blum , F. Schmidlin , R.A. Goldberg, Polar mesosphere winter echoes during MaCWAVE Proceedings of the ESA/PAC meeting in St. Gallen, ESA-SP-530, 357-362, 2003

Goldberg, R.A, D.C. Fritts, B.P. Williams, F.J.Schmidlin, C.L.Croskey, J.D.Mitchell, F.J. Lübken, M. Rapp, W. Singer, R. Latteck, T.A.Blix, M. Friedrich, S. Kirkwood, N. Mitchell, K.H. Fricke, The MacWAVE program to study gravity wave forcing of the polar mesosphere during summer and winter, Proceedings of the ESA/PAC meeting in St. Gallen, ESA-SP-530, , 2003

M. Khaplanov, J. Gumbel, J. Stegman, G. Witt, P. Dalin, S. Kirkwood, F. J. Schmidlin, K. H. Fricke, U. Blum, N. Lautie, and the Odin Team , Middle atmosphere water vapour and dynamics during the HYGROSONDE-2 campaign, Proceedings of the ESA/PAC meeting in St. Gallen, ESA-SP-530, 551-557, 2003

Belova, E., P.B. Chilson, S. Kirkwood, and M.T. Rietveld, A time constant of response of PMSE on ionospheric heating, Proc. URSI XXVII General Assembly, 17-24 August 2002, Maastricht, the Netherlands

S. Kirkwood, V. Barabash, E. Belova, H. Nilsson, T. N. Rao, K. Stebel, U. Blum, K.-H. Fricke, A. Osepian, Phillip B. Chilson, Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes - by ESRAD, EISCAT and lidar, Published in : Papers given at the Perth meeting on Mesospheric clouds, 2002 August 19-22, memoirs of the British Astronomical Association, Volume 45, paper 07,ISBN

Stebel, K., Hooper, D.A., Kirkwood, S., Gravity wave activity during winter above Esrange, Proc. 13th ESA-Pac Symposium, Biarritz, France, ESA-SP-471, pp 103-107, August 2001

Khaplanov, M., J. Gümbel, G. Witt, S. Kirkwood, Studies of toposphere / stratosphere humidity structures during the SKERRIES balloon programme, Proc. 13th ESA-Pac Symposium, Biarritz, France, ESA-SP-471, pp 283-286, August 2001

Victoria Barabash, Phil Chilson, Sheila Kirkwood, A comparison of PMSE occureence with energetic particle precipitation detected by riometer in Northern Scandinavia, Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar, pp108-111, 2000.

Phillip B. Chilson, Evgenia Belova, Michael Rietveld, Sheila Kirkwood, Ulf-Peter Hoppe, First artificially induced modulation of PMSE using the EISCAT heating facility, Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar, pp104-107, 2000

Kirkwood,S., K. Stebel, J. Kyllonen ,W. Singer, R. Latteck , N. Mitchell, A comparison between waves in noctilucent clouds and radar observations of waves, winds and wind-shears at the Arctic mesopause, Proceedings of the MST-9/COST-76 Workshop, pp 88-91, 2000.

Osepian A., Kirkwood S., Borovkov L., Lazutin L. Energy spectra of the precipitating electrons determined from N(h)-profiles as compared with direct measurements in the magnetosphere.- XXII annual seminar, Physics of Auroral phenomena, 23-26 March 1999, Theses of reports, Russian Academia of Sciences, 1999, p.42.

Pommereau, J. P., F. Goputail, I. Pundt, J.A.Pyle, F. Danis, G. Hansford, R. Freshwater, A. Robinson, R.L. Jones, N.R.P. Harris, A. Adriani, F. Cairo, L. Pulvirenti, G. Difrancesco, S. Kirkwood, H. Nilsson, J. Arvelius, P. woods, N.R. Swann, I.H. Howeison, S. Garcelon, T.D. Gardiner, T. Deshler, A. Buivan, Small balloons for stratospheric ozone research and satellite validation, Proceedings of the 14th ESA Symposium, Potsdam ESA SP-437, 359-362, 1999

Posch, M., M. Friedrich, S. Kirkwood, K. Stebel, An acoustic balloon-borne instrument to measure temperature fine structure near the tropopause, Proceedings of the 14th ESA Symposium, Potsdam ESA SP-437, 359-362, 1999

Arvelius, J., H. Nilsson, S. Kirkwood, F. Danis, N. Harris, and J. Pyle, CFC-measurements with Descartes during the Theseo campaign in Kiruna spring 1999 - early results, Proceedings 14th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, ESA-SP 437, 353-358, 1999.

Stebel, K., Kirkwood, S., MST radar study of lee waves during the winter 1996/97, 97/98 and 98/99 in Northern Scandinavia, , Proceedings 14th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, ESA-SP 437, 353-358, 1999.

K. Stebel, S. Kirkwood, V. Barabash, P. Chilson, and A. Réchou,Leewave observations by the MST radar ESRAD in northern Sweden,, , Proceedings of the European Workshop on Mesoscale Processes in the Stratosphere, 233-238, 1999

K. H. Fricke, K.P. M üller, M. Serwazi, J. Reichardt, S. Kirkwood,Å. Steen, P. Hoffmann, H. Mehrtens, A. Hauchecorne, F. Fierli,U.P. Hoppe, and G. Hansen,Observations of dynamically induced polar stratospheric clouds in the lee of the Scandinavian mountain ridge, Proceedings of the European Workshop on Mesoscale Processes in the Stratosphere, 81-86, 1999

V. Barabash, P. B. Chilson, S. Kirkwood, A. Réchou, andK. Stebel,MST radar observations of PMSE in Northern Scandinavia during May-August 1997,Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar ,330--333,1998.

Phillip B. Chilson, Sheila Kirkwood, and Annika Nilsson,Height calibration of ESRAD using balloons and a tracking radar,Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop onTechnical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar , 306--309,1998.

Phillip B. Chilson, Sheila Kirkwood, Lennart Poromaa, and Lennart Marcus,An introduction to ESRAD: A new VHF MST radar located at Esrange inNorthern Sweden,Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop onTechnical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar , 302--305,1998.

K. Persson, H. Nilsson, S. Kirkwood, A. Réchou, and P. Chilson,Time sections of frontal passages seen in the MST radar signal compared with ozone data, Proceedings of the 4th European Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone ,Air Pollution Research Report 66, European Commission,66--69,1998.

A. Réchou, V. Barabash, P. Chilson, S. Kirkwood, T. Savitskaja, andK. Stebel,ESRAD MST radar analysis of the waves, Proceedings of the 4th European Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone ,Air Pollution Research Report 66, European Commission,70--73,1998.

K. H. Fricke, K. P. M "uller, M. Serwazi, J. Reichardt, S. Kirkwood,Å. Steen, P. Hoffmann, H. Mehrtens, A. Hauchecorne, F. Fierli,U.P. Hoppe, and G. Hansen, Wind generated polar stratospheric clouds: The case of January 16, 1997 above Northern Scandinavia, Proceedings of the 4th European Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone ,Air Pollution Research Report 66, European Commission,127--130,1998.

Kirkwood, S., The anomalous winter ion layer - a mystery waiting for a sounding rocket, Proceedings of the 13th ESA Symposium, Öland, ESA SP-397, 371-374, 1997

Stebel, K., P. Chilson, V. Barabash, S. Kirkwood, A. Réchou, T. Savitskaia, P. Hoffman, W. Singer, G. Schmidt, MST-radar lee wave observations during winter 1996/97 in orthern Scandinavia, Proceedings of the 13th ESA Symposium, Öland, ESA SP-397, 179-183, 1997

Olsen, P.-E., L. Marcus, S. Kirkwood, ESRAD, Esrange MST radar, Proceedings of the 13th ESA Symposium, Öland, ESA SP-397, 267-270, 1997

Kirkwood,S. ,A.Rechou, K. Stebel, V. Barabash, P. Chilson, L. Marcus, P. Olsen,Wind Profiling with ESRAD, the Esrange MST radar, proceedings of the COST-76 workshop, p70-73, May 1997

Kirkwood, S., Röttger, J., Faraday rotation measurements affecting high-latitude MST VHF radar measurements, extended abstract in the proceedings of MST7, p310-313,1995

Smirnova, N., Kirkwood, S., Osepian, A., Anomalous E-region ion layers in twilight conditions, experiment and model, ESA-SP 370, , Proc. 12th ESA Symposium, Lillehammer, May 1995

Osepian, A., Kirkwood, S., Smirnova, N., Effective recombination coefficients in the D and E regions during auroral absorption events, ESA-SP 370, 263-268, 1995, Proc. 12th ESA Symposium, Lillehammer, May 1995

Kirkwood, S., von Zahn, U., Formation mechanisms for low-altitude sporadic-E layers - results from the METAL campaign, Proc. 11th ESA Symposium, Montreux, May 1993, ESA SP-355, 51-56, 1994

Kirkwood,S., An improved conductivity model for substorm modelling, Proceedings of the International conference on Substorms, Kiruna, Sweden, ESA SP-335, 33-38, July 1992

Kirkwood, S., Blix, T., Hoppe, U-P., Häggström, I., von Zahn, U., Measurements from the EISCAT radar during DYANA , Proc. Tenth ESA Symposium, Mandelieu-Cannes, France, ESA SP-317, 413-418, 1991

Kirkwood, S. Electrodynamics of the auroral E region, IRF Scientific Report 205 (PhD thesis), Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden, October 1990

Kirkwood ,S., Eliasson,L., Häggström,I., Collis,P.N. : Enhanced electron density layers in the high-latitude lower ionosphere. Proc. Ninth ESA Symposium, Lahnstein, FRG , ESA SP-291, pp35-40, June 1989

Kirkwood, S. : SPECTRUM - a computer algorithm to derive the flux-energy spectrum of precipitating particles from EISCAT electron density profiles, IRF Technical Report 034, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden, October 1988

Opgenoorth,H.J., Kirkwood,S. : Ground-based observations co-ordinated with Viking spacecraft measurements, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, A328, 221-232, 1989

Hall.,C.,Blix,T.A.,Brekke.,A.,Friedrich,T.,Hansen,T., Kirkwood,S.,R|ttger,J.,Thrane,E.: MAP/WINE electron density profiles in the D and E regions: a comparison of EISCAT, PRE and rocket data, Proc. 7th ESA symp, Loen, Norway, 1985

Hargreaves,J.K.,Burns,C.J.,Kirkwood,S.C.: Irregular structures in the high latitude F-region observed using the EISCAT incoherent scatter radar, AGARD conference proceeding No. 382, 1985

Kirkwood,S.C.: An example of EISCAT science - on cosmic noise absorption spikes, Proceedings of the EISCAT Annual Review meeting 1985, ed. T. Turunen, EISCAT meetings 85/10

Kirkwood,S.C.: Real-time analysis - is it possible?, Proceedings of the EISCAT Annual Review meeting 1985, ed. T. Turunen, EISCAT meetings 85/10

Kirkwood,S.C.: First analysis of multipulse data from CP-1-C, Proceedings of the EISCAT Annual Review meeting 1984,ed. T.Flå, EISCAT meetings 84/9

Kirkwood,S.C.: Seismic surface waves and anisotropic alignments in the oceanic upper mantle, PhD Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1978



Supervised Theses and project reports



Joel Arnault, Imaging of atmospheric waves and fine-scale structure using radar interferometry, Masters Thesis, October 2006

Johan Arvelius ' Calibration and Quality Assessment of Descartes - grabsampler for stratospheric tracers'. PhD thests, October 2005

Grigori Nikulin ' Impact of Rossby waves on ozone distribution and dynamics of the stratosphere and troposphere'. PhD Thesis, November 2005

Barabash, Victoria, Investigation of Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes in Northern Scandinavia, PhD Thesis , IRF Scientific report 283, February 2004

Belova, Alla, Did the weather in the stratosphere influence the weather in the troposphere in Kiruna during the winter 2002/2003 ?, IRF Internal Note 038, September 2003. (project report)

Roslin. Susanne, Adsorption of CFC on carboxen during sampling in the stratosphere. Master's thesis, Swedish Institute of Space Physics/Umea University, 2003.

Enell, Carl-Fredrik, Optical studies of polar stratospheric clouds and related phenomena, Ph. D. Thesis, IRF Scientific Report 278, October 2002 ISSN

Arvelius, Johan, Solar variation signals in the Earth's atmosphere - a study using neural networks, report of a masters project, IRF/University of Lund, June, 1998.

Nilsson, Annika, Height calibration for ESRAD, IRF Internal Note 036, June, 1997. (masters project)

Nilsson, Hans, Ionospheric Plasma Studies with the EISCAT and Søndre Strømfjord Radars, PhD Thesis, IRF Scientific Report 229, January 1996 (assistant supervisor)

Lidström, Sven, Spectral Analysis of Thomsopn scattering spectra from mesopause altitudes in the polar atmosphere, IRF Internal note 028, December 1994 (masters project)



Popular articles



Kirkwood, S, Jurén, C., Nattlysandemoln, i “Solen och Klimatet”, Ymer (Årsbok för Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi), April 2004

Kirkwood, S., Belova, E., Mikhaylova, D., Lidstrom, S. Air-Earth-Current Observations to study Solar Wind Effects on the Global Electric Circuit, in Polarforskningssekretariat Årsbok 2003.

Kirkwood, S., Upper Atmosphere Physics and Chemistry, In.: The Arctic : a guide to research in the natural and social sciences, eds. M. Nuttall, T.V. Callaghan, Harwood Ac. Publ, Reading, November 2000, ISBN

Kirkwood, S., Man-made versus natural climate change, report of the Symposium at Swedish Academy of Science on 29 March 1999, Swedish Human Dimensions News, no. 1, May 1999.

Widell, O. and S. Kirkwood, ESRAD, Information Brochure, 1998