The Sondrestrom Upper Atmospheric Research Facility: Research, Operation and Coordination

该合同将继续支持位于格陵兰岛西海岸康克鲁斯瓦克附近的Sondrestrom高层大气研究设施的管理、运营和科学活动。活动包括有关非相干散射（IS）雷达、瑞利和共振激光雷达以及全天成像仪的所有技术方面，并提供科学、服务、教育和设施的领导。除了日地关系的物理学之外，该站点的其他仪器还支持固体地球、平流层和环境变化研究。随着新技术、激光雷达和全天成像仪能力的进一步进步、远程科学能力的升级以及设施基础设施的改进，将使未来的关键仪器部署成为可能，设施管理的特点是随着最先进的雷达数据采集和处理方案的进一步实施而不断发展。为了提供一个促进教育和培训的环境，一个由多元化教育研究专家组成的教育咨询委员会将确定和发展最有效的方式，以便向公共和教育机构制定、实施、交流和传播信息和数据。另外，为了培养该领域的未来研究人才，将设立新的博士后项目，并扩大现有的研究生研究体验项目，以提高学生的参与度。为了培养高层大气研究的新想法，设施工作人员将改进仪器以促进科学发现，确保数据具有高研究质量，并保持在该设施进行的相关科学方面的专业知识。研究领域包括研究高纬度电离层从秒到太阳周期的响应和变异性的开创性努力，探索电离层在磁层-电离层耦合系统中的作用，以及破译发生在中间层/低层热层-电离层区域的无数过程。IS雷达每年将运行超过1200小时，以响应社区不断变化的需求，为雷达操作提供灵活性，以捕获空间天气事件，并提供更多可用于回顾性分析的数据。为了利用这些广泛的观测，设施工作人员将重点关注与其他现有和计划中的高纬度雷达的合作研究。这将为建立一个高纬度IS雷达联盟铺平道路，以优化协调操作，并鼓励雷达设施之间的科学和技术发展交流。将实施一种新的数据处理和处理策略，以提供对实时数据产品的随时访问，对20年雷达数据的即时分析，并将雷达数据同化到基于物理的社区模型中。调查人员还将与格陵兰地方自治政府和格陵兰丹麦科学研究委员会保持关系，以确保该设施的有效管理和运作。

This is an award to continue management, operations, and scientific activities in support of the Sondrestrom upper atmosphere research facility located near Kangerlussuaq, on the west coast of Greenland. Activities include all technical aspects concerning the incoherent-scatter (IS) radar, the Rayleigh and resonance lidars, and the all-sky imager, and to provide science, service, education, and leadership of the facility. Other instruments at the site support solid earth, stratospheric, and environmental change research in addition to the physics of solar-terrestrial relationships. The facility management features evolutionary development with further implementation of state-of-the-art radar data acquisition and processing schemes that are becoming practicable with new technology, further advancements in lidar and all-sky imager capabilities, upgrades in telescience capabilities, and improvements to the facility infrastructure that will enable key instrument deployments in the future. To provide an environment that promotes education and training, an educational advisory board, consisting of a group of diversified, education research experts, will determine and develop the most effective way of formulating, implementing, communicating and disseminating information and data to public and educational institutions. Also, a new post-doctoral program will be established to train the future research professionals in the field, and the existing graduate student research experience program will be augmented to increase student involvement. To foster new ideas in upper atmospheric research, facility staff will advance instrumentation to promote scientific discovery, ensure data are of high research quality, and maintain expertise in the related sciences conducted at the facility. Areas of research include the pioneering effort to investigate the response and variability of the high latitude ionosphere from seconds to solar cycles, the exploration of the ionosphere's role in the coupled magnetosphere-ionosphere system, and the deciphering of the myriad processes occurring in the mesosphere/lower thermosphere-ionosphere region. The IS radar will be operated more than 1200 hours per year to respond to the evolving needs of the community, provide flexibility in radar operations to capture space weather events, and make more data available for retrospective analysis, To take advantage of these extensive observations, facility staff will focus on collaborative studies with other existing and planned high-latitude radars. This will pave the way to establishing a high-latitude IS radar consortium to optimize coordinated operations and encourage the exchange of scientific and technical developments among the radar facilities. A new data handling and processing strategy will be implemented to provide ready access to real-time data products, immediate analysis of 20 years of radar data, and assimilation of radar data into physics-based community models. The investigators will also maintain relationships with the Greenland Home Rule Government and Danish Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland to ensure effective management and operation of the facility.