Short period geomagnetic pulsations called IPDP (intervals of pulsations of diminishing periods) are investigated, using ground data obtained at 35 campaign stations in the northern polar region. Comparison of the frequency-time (f-t) spectrograms of data from the stations shows that the internal structures of f t pattern of IPDP pulsations vary with a small separation between stations. The variability of the internal structures suggests that "an IPDP event" consists of many discrete wave packets each of which comes from individual sources. Spatial-temporal developments of IPDP wave power are also examined. The two-dimensional distribution of IPDP power is both highly structured in space, suggesting presence of discrete source regions, and also highly variable with time, indicating characteristic dynamic features of the source regions. The source regions are located in the dusk half of the magnetosphere in a range of L value from 4 to 10. Three types of dynamics of the source regions are found; 1) fast westward motion consistent with magnetic-drift velocity of 60-70keV protons in the magnetosphere, 2) quasi-stationary sources, which are almost stationary in the magnetospheric frame for periods longer than 10 minutes, 3) evolution of the IPDP region toward the night and earthward with increase in center frequency. When the westward moving sources arrive at the location of the stationary sources, they merge with them and do not go further westward beyond the stationary sources. These time developments of the IPDP source regions comprehensively explain most of the IPDP characteristics so far obtained from observations in a limited area. Not only well-defined IPDP's but also 583