High Latitude Ionospheric Plasma Dynamics

这笔赠款提供了NSF支持之间的合作 约翰霍普金斯应用物理实验室和英国南极 高频相干散射雷达的操作 BAS的Halley Bay Station 该雷达是南部的组成部分， 一对类似的雷达，而北方部分是在鹅 拉布拉多湾，它位于同一地磁场线上 哈雷湾 这样的一对被称为“磁共轭”。 该阵列被称为PACE（极地英美共轭 实验）。 此外，哈雷湾雷达的视野 其中包括装有良好仪器的USAP上方的电离层 南极站。 这些雷达可以一起绘制出 两个极冠中电离层等离子体的速度 半球，提供前所未有的机会来研究 共轭现象以及地球高纬度电离层 对太阳风的变化做出反应。 该项目是对国际 日地物理学（ISTP），全球地球空间建模（GEM） 通过大气区域的能量学和动力学 （CEDAR）programs.//

This grant provides the NSF support for a collaboration between Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to operate a High Frequency coherent scatter radar at BAS's Halley Bay Station. The radar is the southern component of a pair of similar radars while the northern component is at Goose Bay Labrador, which is located on the same geomagnetic field line as Halley Bay. Such a pair is said to be "magnetically conjugate". The array is called PACE (Polar Anglo-American Conjugate Experiment). In addition, the Halley Bay radar has a field of view which includes the ionosphere above the well instrumented USAP South Pole Station. Together the radars can map the density and velocity of the ionospheric plasma in the polar caps of both hemispheres, providing unprecedented opportunities to study conjugate phenomena and how the Earth's high latitude ionosphere responds to changes in the solar wind. This project is an important contribution to the International Solar Terrestrial Physics (ISTP), Global Geospace Modelling (GEM) and Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics through Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) programs.//