This research is supported by HYDRA NASA funding under grant number NAG 5 2231 and DARA under grant 50 OC 8911 0. Support for the VIS Earth Camera data acquisition at The University of Iowa is provided by NASA under NAS5-30316. SuperDARN observations are supported by Grants NASA Grant NAG5-1099 and NSF Grant ATM-9502993. We thank C. T. Russell for providing magnetic field data from Polar Magnetic Fields Investigation and R. P. Lin for the use of plasma data from Wind 3D Plasma and Energetic Particle Investigation. We are grateful to R. D. Holdaway, J. Faden, P. Puhl-Quinn, and J. C. Dorelli for Hydra software activities, D. Morgan for processing VIS images and D. R. Weimer for processing EFI measurements.
The Editor would like to thank the reviewer of this manuscript.
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