Sino-Magnetic Array at Low Latitudes (SMALL)

PIS将在中国的低纬地区安装一个24站的磁力计阵列，以研究：(1)磁脉动及其引发的亚暴，(2)磁层对赤道电急流的控制，(3)低纬磁脉动，(4)低纬行流涡旋。中国科学家将与该项目合作，操作该阵列。由于该仪器是由加州大学洛杉矶分校和美国国家航空航天局开发的，NSF的资金将涵盖在美国制造和分析的成本。该装置将研究L=2以下的区域，目前没有部署大型二维阵列。

The PIs will install a 24-station magnetometer array at low latitudes across China to study: (1) magnetic pulsations and their causative substorms, (2) magnetospheric control of the equatorial electrojet, (3) low latitude magnetic pulsations, and (4) traveling current vortices at low latitude. Chinese scientists, collaborating with this project, will operate the array. Since the instrument has been developed by UCLA and NASA, the NSF funding will cover the cost of fabrication and analysis in the US. The apparatus will study the region below L=2, where no large two dimensional array is currently deployed.