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| Titel |
The Chatanika and Sondrestrom Radars – a brief history |
| VerfasserIn |
M. A. McCready, C. J. Heinselman |
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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2190-5010
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In: History of Geo- and Space Sciences ; 4, no. 1 ; Nr. 4, no. 1 (2013-02-21), S.1-6 |
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250017355
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/hgss-4-1-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The Sondrestrom upper atmospheric research facility, located just north of
the Arctic Circle near the west coast of Greenland, will soon celebrate 30 yr
of operations. The centerpiece of the facility, an incoherent scatter
radar, has collected 46 000 h of data on the ionospheric state
parameters. This instrument was designed and built to measure the effects of
nuclear bombs on radio wave propagation in the South Pacific, but instead
was deployed to Alaska to study the effects of auroral structuring on the
ionosphere, and was later moved to Greenland to explore the auroral cusp and
the dynamics of the polar cap boundary. This is the story of the birth and
genesis of the instrument, its travels, and the evolution of its facility. |
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