All-Sky Camera Studies of the Aurora Australis

这笔赠款为南极的全天相机(ASC)的运行和数据分析提供支持。来自ASC的照片对于许多极光调查是重要的，既可以提供极光形态，也可以估计天空云层。尽管35 mm胶片在本质上是模拟的，因此有些定性，但通过在其他实验室的尖端光学设备上数字化一些胶片，将提供更多的定量信息。这笔赠款还为电离层探空仪的运行提供支持。这些仪器对于确定电离层“天气”很重要，应该像气象站定期记录对流层天气一样，持续操作。

This grant provides support for the operation, and analysis of data from, an all-sky camera (ASC) at South Pole. The pictures from the ASC are important for many auroral investigations, both to provide auroral morphology and to estimate sky cloud cover. Even though the 35 mm film is analogue in nature, and therefore somewhat qualitative, more quantitative information will be provided by digitizing some of the film on sophisticated optical devices at other laboratories. The same grant provides support for the operation of an ionosonde. These instruments are important for determining the ionospheric "weather", and should be operated on a continuing basis just as the tropospheric weather is recorded on a regular basis by the station Meteorology Department.