New Generation HF Diagnostic in Modern Space Weather

一个新的高频高频雷达诊断系统，最初开发和证明使用非NSF的支持，准备使用的基础研究高层大气物理界。预计具有上级的空间和时间分辨率、极化鉴别、波形选择性、频率捷变和交织的高频诊断将消除与电离层探测器解释相关的许多模糊性。这样，大量陈旧和未使用的基本电离层探测仪数据可用于重新解释。研究计划将新的诊断方法应用于阿雷西博天文台现有的电离层探测仪，在现场分配四个接收器，并保留现有的发射器。一个长长的列表派生的电离层参数，包括电子密度的高度分布，电子温度的高度分布，地图的不规则运动，进行比较，这些参数来自阿雷西博非相干散射雷达（ISR）。低成本、高空间覆盖率、高度准确和可核查的电离层探测仪数据收集研究成果为十年期调查所要求的仪器阵列全球部署做好了准备。

A novel high-frequency HF radar diagnostic system, originally developed and proven using non-NSF support, is prepared for use by the basic research Aeronomy community. It is expected that HF diagnostics featuring superior spatial and temporal resolutions, polarization discrimination, waveform selectivity, frequency agility and interplexing will remove many of the ambiguities associated with the interpretation of ionospheric sounders. In so doing, large amounts of aged and unused basic ionosonde data become available for reinterpretation. The research plan applies the new diagnostics to the extant ionosonde at the Arecibo Observatory, distributing four receivers at the site, and retaining the current transmitter. A long list of derived ionospheric parameters, including electron density altitude profiles, electron temperature altitude profiles, maps of irregularity motion, are compared to those parameters derived by the Arecibo incoherent scatter radar (ISR). The research product of low-cost, high spatial coverage, highly accurate and verifiable ionosonde data collection prepares for the global deployment of instrument arrays called for in the Decadal Survey.