International Joint Research on Spitsbergen IS Radar

该国际联合研究项目是为了推动一组日本科学家与EISCAT(欧洲非相干散射)科学协会之间关于斯瓦尔巴雷达计划的国际合作。由欧洲六个国家(法国、芬兰、德国、挪威、瑞典和英国)联合的斯瓦尔巴雷达科学协会已于1993年开始建造斯瓦尔巴雷达，日本预计将通过共同建造斯瓦尔巴德雷达的第二根天线加入这一计划。斯皮茨卑尔根朗伊尔宾附近的雷达正在建设中，地理纬度约80ﾟ，地磁纬度约75ﾟ的雷达站适合研究太阳风、磁层、电离层和大气之间耦合的物理过程。1994年5-6月，日本文部科学省的代表参加了会议国家极地研究所和日地环境实验室所属的名古屋大学访问了斯皮茨卑尔根，对雷达站进行了调查，日本科学家参加了由EISCAT科学协会赞助的关于极点区域的斯瓦尔巴德研讨会。日本-EISCAT专题讨论会于1994年8月31日至9月3日在日本多巴举行，与会者包括来自欧洲的16人、美国的1人和日本的42人。研讨会的主要议题涉及斯瓦尔巴群岛雷达项目。1994年，这种合作又向前迈进了一步。

The international joint research project is provided to make progress the international collaboration between a group of Japanese scientists and the EISCAT (European Incoherent Scatter) Scientific Association concerning with the Svalbard radar program. The EISCAT Scientific Association joined by European six countries (France, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden and United Kingdom) has started construction of the EISCAT Svalbard radar(ESR) in 1993 and Japan is expected to join the program by sharing construction of the second antenna of the ESR.The radar is under construction at the site near Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen and the radar site at the geographic latitude of about 80ﾟ and at the geomagnetic latitude of about 75ﾟ is suitably located for the research on the physical processes of the coupling among the solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere and atmosphere.During May to June 1994, Japanese delegates from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the National Institute of Polar Research, and the Nagoya University to which the Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory belongs, visited Spitsbergen for investigation of the radar site, and Japanese scientists attended the Svalbard Workshop on the polar cusp region under sponsorship of the EISCAT Scientific Association. The Japan-EISCAT Symposium was held at Toba, Japan on 31 August-3 September 1994 with the participants of 16 from Europe, 1 from USA and 42 from Japan. The major topics of the symposium concerned about the Svalbard radar project. The collaboration has made a further step forward during 1994.