ELBBO: Extended Life Balloon Borne Observatories

本提案的目标有三个：(1)通过平流层气球载电动力测量确定极帽、极光带和中纬度地区电离层对流模式；(2)确定全球环流的长、短期变率；(3)评价平流层和对流层电场源对推断电离层对流的重要性。该研究将解决ISTP/GGS卫星的地底线问题。气球项目的总体目标是更好地了解磁层的结构和动力学。它将在提供新数据方面发挥重要作用，因为卫星和雷达都无法提供pi数据集现在提供的高时间分辨率、长持续时间和多个同时数据点。＊＊＊

9402764 Holzworth The objectives of this proposal are threefold: (1) to determine ionospheric convection patterns in polar cap, auroral zone and midlatitudes from stratospheric balloon-borne electrodynamic measurements; (2) to determine long and short term variability of global circuit; and (3) to evaluate the importance of stratospheric and tropospheric electric field sources to inferred ionospheric convection. The research will address problems at the foot-of-the-field lines for ISTP/GGS satellites. The balloon program's overall goal is to better understand the structure and dynamics of the magnetosphere. It will play an essential role in providing new data to the problem where neither satellites nor radars can provide the high time resolution, long duration and multiple simultaneous data points now available with the PIs data set. ***