Grand Challenge Initiative – Cusp: observational network for solar wind-driven dynamics of the top atmosphere
This is chapter 13 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2019 (https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue2). The Grand Challenge Initiative – Cusp (GCI-Cusp) is a strategic research coordination between Norway, Japan, and the US. Eight sounding rockets were successfully launched...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.4777783 2023-05-15T17:43:06+02:00 Grand Challenge Initiative – Cusp: observational network for solar wind-driven dynamics of the top atmosphere Moen, Jøran Spicher, Andres Takahashi, Toru Rowland, Douglas E Kletzing, Craig LaBelle, James Larsen, Miguel Conde, Mark Saito, Yoshifumi Blix, Kolbjørn 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4777783 https://zenodo.org/record/4777783 en eng Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/sios https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4777782 https://zenodo.org/communities/sios Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY GCI-Cusp polar ionosphere aurora reconnection atmospheric heating outgassing Text Report report 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4777783 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4777782 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z This is chapter 13 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2019 (https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue2). The Grand Challenge Initiative – Cusp (GCI-Cusp) is a strategic research coordination between Norway, Japan, and the US. Eight sounding rockets were successfully launched during winter 2018/19, and three more are scheduled in December 2019. Polar cusps are two funnel-shaped regions in the Earth’s magnetic field, where solar wind particles can enter the polar atmosphere. Collisions between these particles and the atmosphere produce the Northern lights. Cusp aurora is the scientific term for the Northern lights in daytime. Svalbard is a world-class laboratory for studying the cusp. The polar atmosphere is strongly influenced by the solar wind. The GCI-Cusp questions are related to the physics of how the solar wind couples the top of the atmosphere at the poles and the effects it has: how auroral particles are accelerated by waves along magnetic field lines in the cusp, and how these energy inputs lead to heating, upwelling and outgassing of Earth’s atmospheric gasses into space. The Norwegian rocket, ICI-5, launched 26 November 2019, equipped with 12 daughter payloads for 3D imaging of turbulent vortices within the Northern lights. This turbulence sometimes causes severe disturbances/black-out of radio signals. Unfortunately, due to roll rate anomaly the daughters did not spin out. Efforts will be made to redo this novel experiment. The initial processing of the GCI-Cusp data is ongoing and looks very promising. Some data suggest a new method of remotely detecting the cusp using VLF waves. As a world first for sounding rocket experiments, data collected within the GCI-Cusp programme will be made openly and easily available to all users through the SIOS data management system. Report Northern lights Svalbard DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Svalbard Norway |
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This is chapter 13 of the State of Environmental Science in Svalbard (SESS) report 2019 (https://sios-svalbard.org/SESS_Issue2). The Grand Challenge Initiative – Cusp (GCI-Cusp) is a strategic research coordination between Norway, Japan, and the US. Eight sounding rockets were successfully launched during winter 2018/19, and three more are scheduled in December 2019. Polar cusps are two funnel-shaped regions in the Earth’s magnetic field, where solar wind particles can enter the polar atmosphere. Collisions between these particles and the atmosphere produce the Northern lights. Cusp aurora is the scientific term for the Northern lights in daytime. Svalbard is a world-class laboratory for studying the cusp. The polar atmosphere is strongly influenced by the solar wind. The GCI-Cusp questions are related to the physics of how the solar wind couples the top of the atmosphere at the poles and the effects it has: how auroral particles are accelerated by waves along magnetic field lines in the cusp, and how these energy inputs lead to heating, upwelling and outgassing of Earth’s atmospheric gasses into space. The Norwegian rocket, ICI-5, launched 26 November 2019, equipped with 12 daughter payloads for 3D imaging of turbulent vortices within the Northern lights. This turbulence sometimes causes severe disturbances/black-out of radio signals. Unfortunately, due to roll rate anomaly the daughters did not spin out. Efforts will be made to redo this novel experiment. The initial processing of the GCI-Cusp data is ongoing and looks very promising. Some data suggest a new method of remotely detecting the cusp using VLF waves. As a world first for sounding rocket experiments, data collected within the GCI-Cusp programme will be made openly and easily available to all users through the SIOS data management system. |
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