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: Greenwald, Raymond A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2021
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Antarc*; Antarctica; Northern Sweden; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-12-77-2021; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00056542; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00056193/hgss-12-77-2021.pdf; https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/12/77/2021/hgss-12-77-2021.pdf

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...