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AN: SA51B-1136    [Abstracts]
TI: SuperDARN-Storms: A Proposed Expansion of the SuperDARN Network to Allow Global-Scale Observations of Storm-Time Electric Fields and Plasma Convection in the Ionosphere
AU: Kavoussi, N
EM: nicholas.kavoussi@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723 United States
AU: * Greenwald, R A
EM: ray.greenwald@jhuapl.edu
AF: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD 20723 United States
AB: Recently, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in collaboration with the Goddard Space Flight Center Wallops Flight Facility began operation of a new SuperDARN radar located near the Wallops Island sounding rocket launch site. This is the prototype of a proposed expansion of the current high-latitude SuperDARN radar network to allow improved determination of the spatial and temporal evolution of storm-time convection and electric fields in the subauroral and mid-latitude ionospheres. In this paper, we present some of the exciting initial observations with the new radar and discuss how it might be extended into a global network. The global network will require international participation that has already begun. The North-American component of SuperDARN-Storms will eventually require the construction of 6 radars sited at 3 locations across the U.S.
UR: http://superdarn.jhuapl.edu
DE: 2411 Electric fields (2712)
DE: 2441 Ionospheric storms (7949)
DE: 2443 Midlatitude ionosphere
DE: 2471 Plasma waves and instabilities (2772)
DE: 6929 Ionospheric physics (1240, 2400)
SC: SPA-Aeronomy [SA]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005