Riometry in Antarctica and Conjugate Regions

该项目将继续并扩大对高层大气，特别是极光现象的研究，使用光度法和韵律法技术。PI开发了一种新的成像riometer（相对电离层不透明度计）系统，称为IRIS（成像riometer for电离层研究）。最初的两个IRIS安装在南极站和格陵兰岛的桑德雷·斯特罗姆峡湾。第三个IRIS将于今年晚些时候安装在加拿大西北地区的伊基利特。在南极、麦克默多和伊基利特也有以几个频率工作的宽波束里程计，在南极和麦克默多也有极光光度计。伊基鲁特是南极的磁共轭。这些仪器构成了一个独特的网络，可以同时研究两个磁半球的极光效应。首席研究员是一位国际知名的研究沉降电子对大气影响的专家。

This project will continue and expand the study of the upper atmosphere, especially auroral phenomena, using photometry and riometric techniques. The PI has developed a new imaging riometer (relative ionospheric opacity meter) system called IRIS (Imaging Riometer for Ionospheric Studies). The first two IRIS's were installed at South Pole Station and Sondre Stromfjord, Greenland. A third IRIS will be installed at Iqiluit, NWT, Canada later this year. There are also broad-beam riometers operating at several frequencies at South Pole, McMurdo and Iqiluit as well as auroral photometers at South Pole and McMurdo. Iqiluit is the magnetic conjugate to South Pole. These instruments constitute a unique network with which to study auroral effects in both magnetic hemispheres simultaneously. The principal investigator is an internationally respected expert on the effects of precipitating electrons on the atmosphere.