ALTAIR Radar Investigations of Equatorial Electrodynamics and Plasma Structure

CEDAR（耦合、能量学和动力学）的一个主要目标 大气区域）计划是对全球 电离层-热层耦合 赤道地区是 主要关注全球的整体认识， picture. 该项目建议开展广泛的 以ALTAIR为中心的协调观测， 非相干散射雷达位于夸贾林环礁，马歇尔 岛 实验将包括HF/UHF频率捷变 东科罗林岛科斯雷的雷达和一个光学设施 （法布里-珀罗干涉仪和全天空微光图像） 威克岛 科学研究将围绕观察 电子漂移的赤道电射流，和垂直 F层运动 第一年的观测数据库 将在美国宇航局的一次大规模火箭发射中获得 计划于1990年夏天举行。

A major goal of the CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) programs is an understanding of global ionospheric-thermospheric coupling. The equatorial region is of major interest in the overall understanding of the global picture. This project proposes to carry out extensive coordinated observations centered around the ALTAIR, an incoherent scatter radar located in the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall island. The experiments would include an HF/UHF frequency- agile radar on Kosrae, East Coroline Island and an optical facility (Fabry-Perot interferometer and all-sky low light level image) on Wake Island. The science studies will center around observations of electron drift in the equatorial electrojet, and the vertical F-layer motion. Much of the first year observational data base will be acquired during an extensive NASA rocket campaign scheduled for the summer of 1990.//