RAPID: Bridging Support for Greenland West Coast Magnetometers Conjugate to Antarctic Magnetometer Chain

这是一项为期一年的努力，目的是支持格陵兰西海岸研究磁力站网络的继续运行。其主要目标是防止在最近启动的从丹麦气象研究所向丹麦技术大学国家空间研究所的责任过渡期间，这些站的运作出现缺口。这一努力提供的过渡支助将在明年维持这些空间站，同时丹麦国家空间研究所(DNSI)获得研究经费，以继续支持和运作这些空间站。挪威国家地磁研究所已经获得了继续运作格陵兰三个完整的地磁观测站的支助。这为格陵兰提供了一个适当的基础设施，因此只需要少量的额外支助就可以运作西海岸的另外9个磁变仪研究站。该网络的观测结果是国际空间物理研究界的长期宝贵财富。其中，它们为在Sondre Stromfjord使用NSF非相干散射雷达进行的许多研究提供了重要的背景信息。目前，它们也是与最近安装和计划在南极洲安装和规划的磁力计和其他地球物理观测站进行的半球间比较研究的重要组成部分，这些观测站部署在准确设计成与格陵兰网形成半球共轭星座的地点。如果这一数据来源的差距过大，将造成严重的复杂情况，并延误大量正在进行和计划中的研究项目的进展。该项目将由美国和丹麦的研究人员密切合作进行，还包括为一名来自美国的学生提供旅行支持，让他们在夏天与丹麦团队一起工作。

This is a one-year effort to support the continued operation of a network of research magnetometer stations along the west coast of Greenland. The main objective is to prevent a gap in the operation of these stations during the transition in responsibility from the Danish Meteorological Institute to the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark that has been initiated recently. The bridging support provided with this effort will maintain these stations during the next year while the Danish National Space Institute (DNSI) secures research funding to continue the support and operation of these stations. DNSI has already obtained support to continue the operation of the three full geomagnetic observatories in Greenland. This provides an infrastructure in place within Greenland so that only modest additional support is required to operate the additional 9 magnetic variometer research stations along the western coast. The observations from this network constitute a longstanding valuable asset to the international space physics research community. Amongst other, they provide important context information for many studies being conducted with the NSF Incoherent Scatter Radar in Sondre Stromfjord. Currently, they also form an essential part of inter-hemispherical comparative studies conducted with recently installed and planned magnetometers and other geophysical observation stations in Antarctica, which are deployed at locations exactly designed to form a hemispherical conjugate constellation to the Greenland network. An extended gap in this data source would cause significant complications and delay the progress on a large number of ongoing and planned research projects. The project will be carried out in close collaboration between researchers in the US and Denmark and also includes travel support for a student from the US to work with the Danish team over the summer.