Undergraduate Mining of Incoherent Scatter Radar Data Bases

该项目的目标是在本科生和研究生新的教育课程框架内，对地面电离层的大量非相干散射雷达观测进行强有力的科学分析。 ISR数据，这已经从多个设施在过去的几十年中获得的，是历史上利用不足，该项目解决了高层大气研究的几个目标领域，由学生在主要研究员的指导下进行。 这些研究课题--评估长期趋势、对太阳活动变化的响应以及描述午夜最高温度--代表了对地球空间科学目标具有重要意义的长期领域。 该项目将侧重于这些领域内的具体研究问题，这些问题既适合学生个人项目，又基于试点研究和对现有文献的全面考虑而具有科学合理性。

The goal of this project is to conduct robust scientific analysis of large amounts of incoherent scatter radar (ISR) observations of the terrestrial ionosphere within the framework of a new educational curriculum for undergraduate and graduate students. The ISR data, which have been acquired from multiple facilities over the past several decades, are historically under-utilized, and this project addresses several targeted areas of upper atmospheric research to be pursued by students under the mentorship of the principal investigator. These research topics - assessment of long term trends, response to changes in solar activity, and characterizing the midnight temperature maximum - represent long-standing areas of significant importance to geospace science goals. The project will focus on specific research questions within these areas, which are both well suited for individual student projects as well as scientifically justified based on pilot studies and a thorough consideration of existing literature.