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Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Time: 10:30am
Location: NIA, Room 137
Additional Information: Presentation (.pdf)
Investigations of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere
Coupling Using the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN)
Dr. Joseph Baker, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) is a network of high frequency radars developed with funding from more than a dozen countries to monitor ionospheric convection with hemispheric spatial coverage.
Over the past 14 years the SuperDARN collaboration has proven to be one of the most successful tools for studying the dynamic interactions between the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere and neutral upper
atmosphere. At the present time there are 12 radars operating in the northern hemisphere and 7 operating in the southern hemisphere. Plans for further expansion of SuperDARN include a radar that is presently under construction at Blackstone, Virginia, in partnership with Virginia Tech. In this presentation, I will review the history of SuperDARN and discuss some of its primary scientific achievements, with a particular emphasis on what has been learned about magnetosphere-ionosphere-thermosphere coupling.
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