U.S.-Argentina Cooperative Program for Investigation of Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances

该奖项支持电离层的合作研究 华盛顿大学的罗伯特·亨萨克 阿拉斯加地球物理研究所和S.M. Radicella， 布宜诺斯艾利斯的国家无线电传播协会 阿根廷的布宜诺斯艾利斯。 他们将研究 移动电离层扰动，产生于 北方和南方极光区， 向赤道延伸。 两个电离层探测仪将 捐赠给阿根廷， 由NSF支持的链的干扰传播 格陵兰岛、马萨诸塞州 波多黎各和秘鲁。 这些数据将帮助我们理解 高能电离层事件 起源于极光椭圆附近， 向赤道传播的扰动。 美国PI为合作带来了可观的 在大气重力波和旅行方面的专门知识 电离层扰动 阿根廷人员在 PRONARP熟悉设备，并将获得 为今后的研究提供有用的数据。 另一个好处是， 来自增强型电离层无线电仪器 南美的连锁店，将提供给其他 电离层的各种研究。

This award supports cooperative research on ionospheric disturbances between Robert Hunsucker of the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute and S.M. Radicella, of the Programa Nacional de Radiopropagacion (PRONARP) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They will study the propagation of travelling ionospheric disturbances, generated in the northern and southern auroral regions, which travel for long distances toward the equator. Two ionosondes will be donated to Argentina and set up to increase the monitoring of disturbance propagation by the NSF-supported chain of incoherent scatter radars in Greenland, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico and Peru. The data will help our understanding of the relationship between energetic ionospheric events originating near the auroral ovals and the resulting disturbances propagating toward the equator. The U.S. PI brings to the collaboration considerable expertise in atmospheric gravity waves and travelling ionospheric disturbances. The Argentine personnel at PRONARP are familiar with the equipment and will acquire useful data for future research. A further benefit will derive from the enhanced ionospheric radio instrumentation chain in South America which will be available to other investigators for a variety of ionospheric studies.