COUPLING OF SOLAR WIND ENERGY INTO THE EARTH'S ENVIRONMENT

太阳风与地球环境的耦合。我们将研究从太阳风到地球空间环境的能量转移，以及低空的能量转移。这种耦合是通过地磁和行星际磁场线、超低频波和动量转移之间的重联发生的。这些过程的特征包括电离层和地磁场的扰动，这些将使用电离层雷达和探测仪（在塔斯马尼亚、南极洲、加拿大和阿拉斯加）和磁力计（南极洲和阿拉斯加）进行检查。空间天气可以深刻地影响卫星、无线电和地面通信网络，这里描述的这种观测对于发展现实的空间天气模式是必不可少的。

COUPLING OF SOLAR WIND ENERGY INTO THE EARTH'S ENVIRONMENT. We will investigate energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's space environment, and down to low altitudes. The coupling occurs via reconnection between geomagnetic and interplanetary field lines, ultra-low frequency waves, and momentum transfer. Signatures of these processes include perturbations in the ionosphere and the geomagnetic field and these will be examined using ionospheric radars and sounders (in Tasmania, Antarctica, Canada and Alaska) and magnetometers (Antarctica and Alaska). Space weather can profoundly affect satellite, radio and terrestrial communication networks and observations of the type described here are essential to the development of realistic space weather models.