History of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN)-I: pre-SuperDARN developments in high frequency radar technology for ionospheric research and selected scientific results

• Published in: History of Geo- and Space Sciences
• Main Author: R. A. Greenwald
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2021
• Subjects: Science; Q; Geology; QE1-996.5; Dynamic and structural geology; QE500-639.5; Physics; QC1-999; Geophysics. Cosmic physics; QC801-809; Canada; Halley Station; Antarc*; Antarctica; Northern Sweden; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-12-77-2021; https://doaj.org/article/6d58e46c8cae47668a20848cfbefeeee

Part I of this history describes the motivations for developing radars in the high frequency (HF) band to study plasma density irregularities in the F region of the auroral zone and polar cap ionospheres. French and Swedish scientists were the first to use HF frequencies to study the Doppler velocit...