The Chatanika and Sondrestrom Radars – a brief history
The Sondrestrom upper atmospheric research facility, located just north of the Arctic Circle near the west coast of Greenland, will soon celebrate 30 yr of operations. The centerpiece of the facility, an incoherent scatter radar, has collected 46 000 h of data on the ionospheric state parameters. Th...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:hgss17872 2023-05-15T15:01:16+02:00 The Chatanika and Sondrestrom Radars – a brief history McCready, M. A. Heinselman, C. J. 2018-01-15 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-4-1-2013 https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/4/1/2013/ eng eng doi:10.5194/hgss-4-1-2013 https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/4/1/2013/ eISSN: 2190-5029 Text 2018 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-4-1-2013 2020-07-20T16:25:34Z The Sondrestrom upper atmospheric research facility, located just north of the Arctic Circle near the west coast of Greenland, will soon celebrate 30 yr of operations. The centerpiece of the facility, an incoherent scatter radar, has collected 46 000 h of data on the ionospheric state parameters. This instrument was designed and built to measure the effects of nuclear bombs on radio wave propagation in the South Pacific, but instead was deployed to Alaska to study the effects of auroral structuring on the ionosphere, and was later moved to Greenland to explore the auroral cusp and the dynamics of the polar cap boundary. This is the story of the birth and genesis of the instrument, its travels, and the evolution of its facility. Text Arctic Greenland Alaska Copernicus Publications: E-Journals Arctic Greenland Pacific History of Geo- and Space Sciences 4 1 1 6 |
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The Sondrestrom upper atmospheric research facility, located just north of the Arctic Circle near the west coast of Greenland, will soon celebrate 30 yr of operations. The centerpiece of the facility, an incoherent scatter radar, has collected 46 000 h of data on the ionospheric state parameters. This instrument was designed and built to measure the effects of nuclear bombs on radio wave propagation in the South Pacific, but instead was deployed to Alaska to study the effects of auroral structuring on the ionosphere, and was later moved to Greenland to explore the auroral cusp and the dynamics of the polar cap boundary. This is the story of the birth and genesis of the instrument, its travels, and the evolution of its facility. |
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