U.S.-France Cooperative Research: the Formation of Patches and Blobs

这项为期两年的大气科学美法合作研究奖的参与者包括波士顿学院的塞萨尔·瓦拉达雷斯和德怀特·德克尔，以及法国图卢兹空间研究中心的丹尼斯·阿尔卡德及其团队。该奖项为美国调查人员前往英国和法国提供旅行和生活支持。本研究的目的是研究在极冠和极光椭圆中形成的等离子体结构的整体特征。他们将对格陵兰岛Sondrestrom和斯堪的纳维亚半岛EISCAT的非相干散射雷达收集的数据进行联合分析、解释和建模。该项目利用了斯堪的纳维亚半岛的雷达数据，以及美国和法国研究人员在建模方面的互补专业知识。该项目促进了对极帽等离子体结构和电离层密度不规则性的理解。

This two-year award for U.S.-France cooperative research in atmospheric science involves Cesar Valladares and Dwight Decker of Boston College and Denis Alcayde and his group at the Centre D'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements in Toulouse, France. The award provides travel and subsistence support to the U.S. investigators for trips to the United Kingdom and France. The objective of the research is to investigate the global characteristics of plasma structuring that develops in the polar cap and auroral oval. They will conduct joint analysis, interpretation, modeling of data collected by the incoherent scattering radars at Sondrestrom, Greenland, and EISCAT, Scandinavia. The project takes advantage of access to radar data from Scandinavia and of the complementary expertise of the U.S. and French investigators in modeling. The project advances understanding of plasma structure and irregularities in ionospheric density in the polar cap.