Whistler observations of the plasmasphere/plasmapause from stations of the British Antarctic Survey

• Published in: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• Main Author: Smith, A.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Siple; Faraday; Antarc*; Antarctica; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20296/; https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6826(00)00219-4

VLF whistler observations from Eights Station, Antarctica were crucial to the discovery and exploration of the plasmapause (''Carpenter's knee'') by Don Carpenter in the mid-1960s. The Weddell Sea sector of Antarctica is particularly well suited to such work because of the h...