Collaborative Research: CEDAR--The Space-time Properties of High Latitude Ionospheric Irregularities by a Two-dimensional Array of GPS Scintillation Receivers

该项目需要在阿尔伯塔省卡尔加里部署一个二维（2D） GPS闪烁接收器阵列。在2公里范围内部署大量GPS闪烁接收器将允许研究观测到的幅度和相位闪烁的二维空间分布的时间演变。GPS闪烁的二维时变观测将与电磁波在随机介质中的全面理论-数值三维正向传播和逆衍射层析成像技术相结合，在地面阵列的观测和分析以及导致闪烁观测的电离层不规则性的潜在物理和结构之间提供定量联系。此外，数据同化技术将用于估计电子密度、风和场的大尺度梯度，并与闪烁结果和极光成像进行比较，以研究大尺度背景电离层的知识在多大程度上提高了我们对小尺度结构的理解。

The project entails the deployment of a two-dimensional (2D) array of GPS scintillation receivers in Calgary Alberta. The deployment of a large number of GPS scintillation receivers over a 2 km region will allow for the investigation of the temporal evolution of the 2D spatial distribution of observed amplitude and phase scintillations. The 2D time-evolving observations of GPS scintillations will be combined with comprehensive theoretical-numerical 3D forward propagation of electro-magnetic waves through random media, and inverse diffraction tomography techniques to provide quantitative linkage between the observations and analysis of the ground array, and the underlying physics and structuring of the ionospheric irregularities causing the scintillation observations. Furthermore, data assimilative techniques will be used to estimate large scale gradients in electron density, winds and fields, and compared with the scintillation results and auroral imaging to investigate to what degree knowledge of the large scale background ionosphere improves our understanding of smaller scale structuring.