Sino-Magnetic Array at Low Latitudes (SMALL)

研究所将在中国低纬度地区安装一个24站的磁强计阵列，以研究：（1）磁脉动及其成因亚暴，（2）赤道电射流的磁层控制，（3）低纬度磁脉动，（4）低纬度的行进电流涡旋。 与该项目合作的中国科学家将操作该阵列。 由于该仪器是由加州大学洛杉矶分校和美国宇航局开发的，NSF的资金将支付在美国制造和分析的费用。 该装置将研究L=2以下的区域，其中当前没有部署大的二维阵列。

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.