GEM: MACCS-EAST: A Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies

多机构美国全球变化战略的一个组成部分 研究计划（我们不断变化的星球，”地球委员会 Sciences，1991）正在理解和模拟地球空间 环境 作为其对美国全球贡献的一部分， 美国国家科学基金会的变化研究计划 大气科学部建立了一个新的研究 地球空间环境建模倡议，目标是 支持基础研究的动力和结构 地球空间的性质，导致全球建设 具有预测能力的地理空间模型。 第一次创业板运动的主题是 磁层边界，磁鞘超出它，和 从边界到磁层的连接 电离层 这笔赠款用于支持部署一系列 在尖点/裂缝纬度的磁力计， 奥格斯堡学院。 阵列的目的是研究 与磁层尖点有关的电离层波 邻近地区。 与雷达系统相关联， 将在同一地区运行，这个磁力计阵列将 提供高时间分辨率的二维数据， 尖点对流的电动力学

An integral component of the multi-agency U.S. Global Change Research Program (Our Changing Planet," Committee on Earth Sciences, 1991) is understanding and modeling the geospace environment. As part of its contribution to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric Sciences has established a new research initiative, Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM), with the goal of supporting basic research into the dynamical and structural properties of geospace, leading to the construction of a global geospace model with predictive capability. The subjects of the first GEM campaign are the magnetospheric boundary, the magnetosheath beyond it, and the connection from the boundary through the magnetosphere to the ionosphere. This grant is for support to deploy an array of magnetometers at cusp/cleft latitudes in a joint effort with Augsburg College. The purpose of the array is to study ionospheric waves associated with the magnetospheric cusp and neighboring regions. In association with the radar system that will be operating in the same area, this magnetometer array will provide high time resolution, two-dimensional data in the electrodynamics of cusp convection.