HR: 1340h
AN: SA23A-0300    [Abstracts]
TI: Hokkaido HF radar: progress report on mid-latitude SuperDARN radar in East Asia
AU: * Nishitani, N
EM: nisitani@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp
AF: Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, 3-13 Honohara, Toyokawa, 442-8507 Japan
AU: Ogawa, T
EM: ogawa@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp
AF: Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, 3-13 Honohara, Toyokawa, 442-8507 Japan
AU: Kikuchi, T
EM: kikuchi@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp
AF: Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, 3-13 Honohara, Toyokawa, 442-8507 Japan
AB: We present a progress report on new HF radar in Hokkaido, northern Japan. The planned Hokkaido radar is located at (43.5°, 143.6°) geographic coordinates and at geomagnetic latitude of ~ 37°, much lower than the existing SuperDARN HF radars. The funding for constructing Hokkaido radar was approved by the government for 2005 fiscal year. It will be the second mid-latitude SuperDARN radar, and the first one in East Asia. The radar can monitor the wide latitudinal range ( 38° to 65° in geomagnetic coordinates), which could not be covered by using the existing radars. Using this radar, we can deal with a wide variety of scientific targets, ranging from the magnetosphere/ionosphere to the thermosphere/mesosphere. In particular, Hokkaido is situated in an excellent location to monitor the energy budget between the polar and middle latitude regions, by collaborating with a wide variety of observation network such as high-latitude SuperDARN, 210° MM network, airglow imager network and Japanese GPS network (GEONET).
DE: 2400 IONOSPHERE (6929)
DE: 2411 Electric fields (2712)
DE: 2427 Ionosphere/atmosphere interactions (0335)
DE: 2437 Ionospheric dynamics
DE: 2443 Midlatitude ionosphere
SC: SPA-Aeronomy [SA]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005