Sondrestrom Facility into the Next Millennium

ATM9813556调查人员将继续与位于格陵兰岛Kangerlussuaq附近的Sondrestrom雷达设施有关的业务和科学研究。这些任务包括设施的管理、操作和维护，包括非相干散射雷达、瑞利激光雷达、新的共振激光雷达和全天成像仪的所有技术方面。五年的努力强调了该设施的逐步发展，继续实施现代脉冲编码技术、数据采集和处理方案，以及激光雷达性能的进一步进步和现有遥测能力的升级。包括科学家的持续参与，以提供促进教育的环境，建立设施发展的新想法，并保持在设施中开展的相关科学的专业知识。具体任务包括(1)雷达每年运行1200小时，激光雷达每年运行300小时，(2)协助设施用户在现场进行实验，(3)维护和升级仪器，(4)维护高质量、易于获取的数据产品，(5)开发和改进数据分析软件，(6)与其他科学家合作，(7)与格陵兰自治政府和丹麦科学研究委员会保持良好关系。将进行的科学研究包括F区等离子体结构、极帽弧线和斑块、D区和E区电子温度增强、高纬度电动力学、与磁层的电磁能量耦合、极光弧动力学、地球磁暴、中层大气离子和中性层、北极夜光云和大气重力波。

ATM9813556absThe investigators will continue operations and scientific studies associated with the Sondrestrom Radar Facility located near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. The tasks include the management, operation, and maintenance of the facility, including all technical aspects of the incoherent scatter radar, the Rayleigh lidar, the new resonance lidar, and the all-sky imager. The five-year effort emphasizes the evolutionary development of the facility with continuing implementation of modern pulse-coding techniques, data acquisition and processing schemes, as well as further advancements in lidar performance and upgrades to the existing telescience capability. Continued involvement of scientists is included to provide an environment that promotes education, establishes new ideas for facility development, and maintains expertise in related sciences conducted at the facility. Specific tasks include (1) operating the radar for 1200 hours per year and the lidars for 300 hours per year, (2) assisting facility users in carrying out experiments at the site, (3) maintaining and upgrading the instrumentation, (4) maintaining high quality, easily accessible data products, (5) developing and improving data analysis software, (6) collaborating with other scientists, and (7) maintaining good relations with the Greenland Home Rule Government and the Danish Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland. Scientific research to be conducted include studies of F-region plasma structure, polar cap arcs and patches, D- and E-region electron temperature enhancements, high latitude electrodynamics, electromagnetic energy coupling to the magnetosphere, auroral arc dynamics, geomagnetic storms, ion and neutral layers in the middle atmosphere, arctic noctilucent clouds, and atmospheric gravity waves.