Svenes, Plasma density over Svalbard during the ISBJéRN campaign, Ann. Geophysicae, this issue

Abstract. In 1997, reliable operation of the EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) was achieved and a rocket launching facility at Ny A Ê lesund on Svalbard (79°N, 12°E) (SVALRAK) was established. On 20 November, 1977, the ®rst instrumented payload was launched from SVALRAK. Although the payload con®guration...

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Main Authors: C. M. Hall, A. P. Van Eyken, K. R. Svenes
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1999
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Key words
Ionosphere (polar ionosphere
Lesund
Svalbard
EISCAT
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.371.7519
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/31/65/71/PDF/angeo-18-209-2000.pdf
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Summary:Abstract. In 1997, reliable operation of the EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) was achieved and a rocket launching facility at Ny A Ê lesund on Svalbard (79°N, 12°E) (SVALRAK) was established. On 20 November, 1977, the ®rst instrumented payload was launched from SVALRAK. Although the payload con®guration had been ¯own many times previously from Andùya Rocket Range on the Norwegian mainland, this presented an unprecedented in situ determination of positive ion density over Svalbard. Simultaneously, ESR measured similar density pro®les but in a higher altitude regime. We have combined the ESR measurements with ionosonde data to establish a calibration and subsequently combined the ground-based and in situ determined pro®les to give a composite positive ion density pro®le from the mesosphere to the thermosphere.

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