Renewal of the South American Meridional B-field Array (SAMBA): An American-Chilean magnetometer chain

拟议的工作是在智利和南极洲继续运行一个纬度延伸的磁强计链（桑巴舞=南美洲子午线B场阵列）。 先前的工作已使这12个台站全面投入使用，并引起了科学界的注意。未来五年的运作将致力于实现关键的科学目标，进一步推动已经开始的国际合作，进一步发展数据分发系统，并维护和发展磁强计网络。（1）定量测定了太阳风动压增强对非对称环流的影响，（2）更可靠的场线共振（FLR）自动测定，（3）对用于从FLR测定赤道质量密度的模型的限制进行研究，（4）在风暴期间对内磁层质量密度进行远程监测，（5）与美国宇航局的THEMIS使命（THEMIS =亚暴期间事件和大尺度相互作用的时间历史）联合进行的亚暴极光共轭观测。

The proposed work is the continued operation of a latitudinally extended magnetometer chain in Chile and Antarctica (SAMBA = South American Meridional B-field Array). Previous work has brought the twelve stations into full operation and has brought it to the attention of the scientific community. The next five years of operation will address key science objectives, further the international collaborations already begun, further develop the data distribution system, and to maintain and develop the magnetometer network The primary science objectives are: (1) the quantitative determination of the effect solar wind dynamic pressure enhancements have on the asymmetric ring current, (2) a more reliable automated determination of field-line resonances (FLR), (3) the investigation of constraints on models used to determine equatorial mass density from FLRs, (4) the remote monitoring of the inner magnetospheric mass density during storms, and (5) auroral conjugate observations of substorms in conjunction with NASA's THEMIS mission (THEMIS = Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms).