Collaborative Research: Studies of ULF Waves Associated with Solar Wind Coupling to the Magnetosphere and Ionosphere.

职务名称：合作研究：与太阳风耦合到磁层和电离层有关的ULF波的研究PLR-1341677 PI：Marc Lessard，新罕布什尔州大学（牵头）PLR-1341493 PI：Mark Engebretson，奥格斯堡学院（非牵头）自从太空时代开始以来，人们已经做出了越来越复杂的努力来探索和了解地球？的空间环境。因为地球的这些部分？由于地球的磁场最远延伸到太空，在高纬度地区与地面相交，因此在这些极地地区的地面磁力计和极光成像仪阵列长期以来一直是监测地球磁层偏远地区过程的重要手段。该合同将继续操作和分析位于南极洲的六个地面感应（搜索线圈）磁力仪（美国南极站和麦克默多站，以及英国哈雷站和罗瑟拉站）和两个北极站（格陵兰岛的Sondrestromfjord和加拿大的伊卡卢伊特）的数据。这项研究还包括对自动地球物理观测台阵列的搜索线圈数据进行比较分析，这是一个分布在南极极冠纬度范围从极光区到地磁极附近的大范围阵列，该项目中的台站是北极和南极地区地面电离层和磁层观测台阵列的关键环节。这些仪器利用设在这些地点的其他仪器提供的数据，并利用南极自动仪器阵列以及美国航天局低空和高空航天器提供的数据，在对地球空间现象的各种研究中发挥了重要作用，其中包括太阳风-磁层相互作用以及地磁暴和亚磁暴。总之，这些仪器可以研究整个范围的超低频（ULF）变化，从Pc1和Pi1脉动到Pc5脉动，磁脉冲事件，突发电磁脉冲和亚暴扰动，具有高灵敏度。对这些波的研究与其他仪器和航天器观测相结合，极大地提高了波观测的科学潜力，为地球空间动力学提供了新的物理见解。扎实的科学，协作努力，国际合作伙伴和前往南极洲提供了实现教育和宣传目标的理想机会。在美国南极考察站运行的探测线圈磁强计为新罕布什尔州大学和明尼苏达州奥格斯堡学院的研究生和本科生提供了极好的机会，使他们能够为尖端科学做出有意义的贡献。探测线圈数据被其他研究小组广泛使用，应用于研究日地关系、磁层物理学和空间天气。这些仪器对于研究地球空间环境至关重要，而研究地球空间环境对于我们技术先进的社会来说已变得越来越重要。提高对重大空间气象事件进行预测和定性的能力具有直接的社会效益。

Title: Collaborative Research: Studies of ULF waves associated with solar wind coupling to the magnetosphere and ionospherePLR-1341677 PI: Marc Lessard, University of New Hampshire (Lead)PLR-1341493 PI: Mark Engebretson, Augsburg College (Non-Lead)Since the beginning of the space age, increasingly sophisticated efforts have been made to explore and understand Earth?s space environment. Because those parts of Earth?s magnetic field that reach farthest out into space intersect the ground at high latitudes, arrays of ground magnetometers and auroral imagers at these polar regions have long been a valued means of monitoring processes in remote parts of Earth's magnetosphere. This award is to continue to operate and analyze data from six ground-based induction (search coil) magnetometers located in Antarctica (U.S. stations at South Pole and McMurdo, and the British Halley and Rothera stations), and two in the Arctic (Sondrestromfjord, Greenland, and Iqaluit, Canada). This research includes also the comparative analysis of search coil data from the array of automatic geophysical observatories (AGOs), a widely spaced array at Southern Polar Cap latitudes ranging from the auroral zone to near the geomagnetic pole.The stations in this project are key links in arrays of ground-based ionospheric and magnetospheric observatories in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions. With data from other instruments located at these sites and utilizing data from Antarctic arrays of automated instruments and from both low-altitude and high-altitude NASA spacecraft, these instruments play a significant role in a variety of studies of geospace phenomena including the solar wind-magnetosphere interaction and geomagnetic storms and substorms. Taken together, these instruments make it possible to study the entire range of Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) variations, from Pc1 and Pi1 pulsations down to Pc5 pulsations, magnetic impulse events, sudden electromagnetic impulses, and substorm disturbances with high sensitivity. Studies of these waves in conjunction with other instruments and spacecraft observations greatly enhance the scientific potential of the wave observations to provide new physical insights into Geospace dynamics.Solid science, collaborative effort, international partners, and travel to Antarctica provide an ideal opportunity to achieve education and outreach goals. Operation of the search coil magnetometers at the U.S. Antarctic stations provides excellent opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students at the University of New Hampshire and Augsburg College in Minnesota to make meaningful contributions to cutting-edge science.Search coils data are broadly employed by other research groups, with applications in studying solar-terrestrial relationships, magnetospheric physics, and space weather. These instruments are critical for the study of Earth's space environment, which has become increasingly important to our technologically advanced society. Improving the capability to forecast and characterize major space weather events has direct societal benefit.