New gravity wave observatories in Antarctica

ANGWIN is now a SCAR action group.  See the proposal that was presented at the Polar 2018 conference here: SCAR_Proposal.pdf

ANGWIN (in the Cornish English dialect ANGWIN means “the white”) is a concept that is designed to develop a network of Antarctic gravity wave observatories, operated by different nations working in a spirit of close scientific collaboration in order to address scientific processes on a polar scale. These will run at existing Antarctic research stations and also run autonomously at more remote sites, chosen for their scientific advantages to the network.

This webpage is designed to present the concept and the science objectives to the international community. We ask that those who are interested in participating provide updates about the scientific datasets that they have at their relevant Antarctic stations, and contribute to the development of the science questions and further the aims of ANGWIN.

Science objectives:

The importance of gravity wave activity over Antarctica and its contribution to global circulation is well known, although there is a lack of comprehensive observations in this region. Gravity wave activity over Antarctica needs to be studied in a joined up fashion, continent wide and through all levels of the atmosphere in order to fully understand their impact and to constrain modelling work. By combining our resources through broad collaboration, and standardizing our analysis techniques we can achieve this.

The primary objectives of the network will be to:

• Quantify the longitudinal variation in gravity wave activity from the lower atmosphere into the mesosphere and lower thermosphere above Antarctica, and determine causes.

• Characterise the propagation and dynamical influence of mountain waves on stratosphere and MLT dynamics.

• Relate gravity waves observed in the stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere to sources such as storms in the Drake’s Passage and Southern Ocean, auroral activity or the polar vortex.

• Study the interaction of gravity waves with global scale waves and their contribution to the polar vortex dynamical and thermal structure.

• Compare observed polar gravity wave characteristics to parameterized gravity waves in climate models.

• Determine the potential effects of Antarctic gravity waves on processes such as polar stratospheric cloud formation.

Committee members

• Mike Taylor (Utah State University, USA)
• Takuji Nakamura, Mitsumu K. Ejiri (NIPR, Japan)
• Tracy Moffat-Griffin (BAS, UK)
• Damian Murphy (AAD, Australia)
• Jose Valentin Bageston (INPE, Brazil)
• Geonhwa Jee (KOPRI, South Korea)

Instrument database

The ANGWIN community aims to provide a comprehensive list of ground based instruments that can observe gravity wave activity in the atmosphere and ionosphere from the Antarctic and Arctic.  This database will provide information on the types of measurements made, relevant website links, PI contact details, and dataset length.

If you wish to add you instruments to this database please contact Dr. Tracy Moffat-Griffin who will provide you with a template to fill in.

Antarctic

Halley station (Lat. 75°35’S, Long. 26°39’W)

Airglow spectrometer

Medium Frequency radar

All-sky infrared airglow imager

Halley SuperDARN radar

Rothera Station (Lat. 67°35’S, Long. 68°7’W)

Medium Frequency radar

Meteor detection wind radar

All-sky infrared airglow imager

All-sky multi-spectral airglow imager

Airglow spectrometer

Noctilucent cloud camera

McMurdo Station (Lat. 77°50’S, Long. 166°40’E)

All-Sky OH Imager

Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper

Davis Station (Lat. 68.6°S; Long 78.0°E)
Medium Frequency radar (2MHz)

Meteor detection wind radar (33MHz)

VHF wind radar (55MHz)

University of Western Ontario Scanning Radiometer

All-sky airglow imager

Syowa Station (Lat. 69.0°S, Long. 39.6°E)
All-sky OH airglow imager (2016 -)

OH airglow spectrometer (2008 -)

MF radar (1999 -)

Rayleigh/Raman Lidar (2011 – 2016)

Resonance scattering lidar (Na: 2000 – 2002 / Fe, K, Ca+: 2017 – 2018)

 

Comandante Ferraz Station (Lat. 62°05’S, Long. 58°24’W)

All-sky airglow imager

Meteor detection wind radar (36.9MHz)

Noctilucent cloud camera

Spectral temperature airglow imager

VLF receiver

Ionosonde

Riometer

King Sejong Station (Lat. 62°13S, Long. 58°47’W)

All-sky airglow imager

Meteor radar (ATRAD)

Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI)

Jang Bogo Station (Lat. 74°37’S, Long. 164°12’E)

All-sky airglow imager

Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI)

Vertical Incidence Pulsed Ionospheric Radar (VIPIR)

Dasan station (Lat. 78° 55′ N, Lon. 11° 56 ‘ E)

OH airglow spectrometer

Fabry-Perot Interferometer

 

Sub-Antarctic

Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (Lat. 53° 46’S, Long. 67° 45’W)

Rayleigh Lidar

Arctic

Kjell Henriksen Observatory, Svalbard, Norway (Lat. 78.148°N, Long. 16.043°E)

1m Ebert Fastie Spectrometer

All-sky airglow imager

Kiruna, Sweden, (Lat. 67° 52′ N, Lon. 21° 14 ‘ E)

OH airglow spectrometer

Fabry-Perot Interferometer

 

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Details:

Antarctic

Halley station (Lat. 75°35’S, Long. 26°39’W)

ocation	Halley Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	Utah State University all-sky IR imager
Instrument Information	Imager producing all-sky images of the hydroxyl airglow emissions in the night sky for gravity wave studies
Data format	Raw images are TIFF, time stamped
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 75°35’S, Long. 26°39’W
URL(s)	https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ail/
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. Mike Taylor, Utah State University, mike.taylor at usu.edu Dr Tracy Moffat-Griffin, British Antarctic Survey, tmof at bas.ac.uk
Data Request Contact	request to the PI
Status	Not currently operational at Halley. Data gathered during dark times of the year: March to October
Start date	March 2012
End date	October 2016

 

Rothera Station (Lat. 67°35’S, Long. 68°7’W)

Location	Rothera Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	Utah State University all-sky IR imager
Instrument Information	Imager producing all-sky images of the hydroxyl airglow emissions in the night sky for gravity wave studies
Data format	Raw images are TIFF, time stamped
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 67°35’S, Long. 68°7’W
URL(s)	https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ail/
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. Mike Taylor, Utah State University, mike.taylor at usu.edu Dr Tracy Moffat-Griffin, British Antarctic Survey, tmof at bas.ac.uk
Data Request Contact	request to the PI
Status	Operational.  Data gathered during dark times of the year: March to October
Start date	March 2017
End date	Ongoing

 

Location	Rothera Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	Utah State University all-sky multi-filter imager
Instrument Information	Imager producing all-sky images of the OH, Na, O2 and 6300 airglow emissions in the night sky for gravity wave studies
Data format	Raw images are TIFF, time stamped
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 67°35’S, Long. 68°7’W
URL(s)	https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ail/
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. Mike Taylor, Utah State University, mike.taylor at usu.edu Dr Tracy Moffat-Griffin, British Antarctic Survey, tmof at bas.ac.uk
Data Request Contact	request to the PI
Status	Operational.  Data gathered during dark times of the year: March to October
Start date	March 2002
End date	Ongoing

McMurdo Station (Lat. 77°50’S, Long. 166°40’E)

Location	McMurdo, Antarctica
Instrument type	Utah State University all-sky OH imager
Instrument Information	Imager producing all-sky images of the hydroxyl airglow emissions in the night sky for gravity wave studies
Data format	Raw images are TIFF, time stamped, 320×256 pixel array sequences, with 2-s exposure, taken every 10 s
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 77°50’47″S, Long. 166°40’06″E
URL(s)	https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ail/
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. Mike Taylor, Utah State University, mike.taylor@usu.edu
Data Request Contact	USU Box, with password provided upon request to the PI
Status	Operational – During dark times of the year: mid March to end of September
Start date	March 2012
End date	On going

 

Location	McMurdo, Antarctica
Instrument type	Utah State University Advanced Mesospheric Temperature Mapper
Instrument Information	Imager producing images of the hydroxyl airglow (3,1) band emission, which can be converted into 200×160 km rotational temperature maps for gravity wave studies
Data format	Raw images are TIFF, time stamped, 320×256 pixel array sequences, with 10-s exposure
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 77°50’47″S, Long. 166°40’06″E
URL(s)	https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ail/
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. Mike Taylor, Utah State University, mike.taylor@usu.edu
Data Request Contact	USU Box, with password provided upon request to the PI
Status	Operational – During dark times of the year: mid March to end of September
Start date	March 2017
End date	On going

 

Davis Station (Lat. 68.6°S; Long 78.0°E)

Location	Davis Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	Medium Frequency radar (2MHz)
Instrument Information	Full correlation analysis applied to three spaced receive antennas. Vertical sampling 2 km but resolution approximately 4 km. Observations repeat every 2 minutes. Data analysis yields winds typically between 70-96 km.
Data format	ATRAD .fca format.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 68.6S; Long 78.0E
URL(s)	http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/environment/atmosphere/studying-the-atmosphere/the-davis-mfsa-radar https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Davis_MFSA_Radar
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. Damian Murphy, Australian Antarctic Division. Damian.Murphy at aad.gov.au
Data Request Contact	The PI. Also available through the Australian Antarctic Data Centre data.aad.gov.au
Status	Operational – All year
Start date	Apr-94
end date	Ongoing

 

Location	Davis Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	Meteor detection wind radar (33MHz)
Instrument Information	Meteor detection analysis applied to five receive antennas (Mills cross) to yield radial velocity, angle of arrival and range.  Observations repeat every 2 minutes. Data analysis yields sporadic meteor detections. Resultant winds typically between approx 75-105 km calculated hourly. Vertical sampling 2 km.
Data format	ATRAD .met and .vel format.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 68.6S; Long 78.0E
URL(s)	http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/environment/atmosphere/studying-the-atmosphere/the-davis-meteor-radar https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Davis_33MHz_Meteor_Radarhttp://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/environment/atmosphere/studying-the-atmosphere/the-davis-meteor-radar
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. Damian Murphy, Australian Antarctic Division. Damian.Murphy at aad.gov.au
Data Request Contact	The PI. Also available through the Australian Antarctic Data Centre data.aad.gov.au
Status	Operational – All year
Start date	May-06
end date	Ongoing

 

Location	Davis Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	VHF wind radar (55MHz) radar
Instrument Information	Doppler wind analysis applied to steered beam (EWNSV). Beam steering capability has changed through the life of the radar to address data quality issues. Resultant winds typically between approx 2-12 km. Polar mesosphere summer echoes provide mesospheric winds between mid November and mid February.
Data format	ATRAD dbs and vel format.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 68.6S; Long 78.0E
URL(s)	http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/environment/atmosphere/studying-the-atmosphere/the-davis-vhf-radar https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/Davis_MST_Radar
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. Damian Murphy, Australian Antarctic Division. Damian.Murphy at aad.gov.au
Data Request Contact	The PI. Also available through the Australian Antarctic Data Centre data.aad.gov.au
Status	Operational – All year
Start date	Feb-03
end date	Ongoing

 

Location	Davis Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	University of Western Ontario Scanning Radiometer
Instrument Information	Scanning radiometer produces low-res ‘images’ of hydroxyl airglow emissions in the night sky for gravity wave studies
Data format	Raw images are time stamped, 16×16 pixel array sequences in binary format, one series for each night of observations.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 68.6S; Long 78.0E
URL(s)	https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4157_Davis_UWOSCR_1999-2016
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. John French, Australian Antarctic Division. John.French at aad.gov.au
Data Request Contact	The PI. Also available through the Australian Antarctic Data Centre data.aad.gov.au
Status	Operational – During dark times of the year: March to October?
Start date	Feb-99
end date	Ongoing

 

Location	Davis Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	Utah State University all-sky OH imager
Instrument Information	Imager producing all-sky images of the hydroxyl airglow emissions in the night sky for gravity wave studies
Data format	Raw images are TIFF, time stamped, 320×256 pixel array sequences, with 2-s exposure, taken every 10 s
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 68.6S; Long 78.0E
URL(s)	https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/ail/
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. Mike Taylor, Utah State University, mike.taylor at usu.edu
Data Request Contact	USU Box, with password provided upon request to the PI
Status	Operational – During dark times of the year: March to October
Start date	March 2012
End date	Ongoing

 

Comandante Ferraz Station (Lat. 62°05’S, Long. 58°24’W)

Note: no data 2016-2018 due to station rebuilding

Location	Comandante Ferraz Station
Instrument type	All-sky imager
Instrument Information	OH NIR, OI557.7 nm and OI630.0 nm airglow observations
Data format	Raw all-sky images in .tiff format
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62°05’24.5″S, Long. 58°24’11.9″
URL(s)	not available yet
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Jose Valentin Bageston (INPE). Email: jose.bageston at inpe.br Dr Cristiano Max Wrasse (INPE). Email: cristiano.wrasse at inpe.br
Data Request Contact	The PIs.  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to EMBRACE/INPE and the PIs  informed before submission.
Status	Operational – wintertime data only
Start date	Feb-14
end date	May-14
Start date	Feb-15
end date	Oct-16

 

Location	Comandante Ferraz Station
Instrument type	Photographic camera
Instrument Information	Noctilucent clouds observations
Data format	Raw images in .jpeg format
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62°05’24.5″S, Long. 58°24’11.9″
URL(s)	not available yet
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Jose Valentin Bageston (INPE). Email: jose.bageston at inpe.br
Data Request Contact	The PIs.  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to CRS/INPE,  CNPq Grant N° 461531/2014-3 and the PI informed before submission.
Status	Operational – summertime data only
Start date	Nov-16
end date	present
Start date	Dec-15
end date	Feb-16

 

Location	Comandante Ferraz Station
Instrument type	Small cost all-sky airglow imager
Instrument Information	OH NIR airglow observations
Data format	Raw all-sky images in .fit format
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62°05’24.5″S, Long. 58°24’11.9″
URL(s)	not available yet
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Jose Valentin Bageston (INPE). Email: jose.bageston at inpe.br
Data Request Contact	The PI.  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to LUME-DAE/INPE and the PIs  informed before submission.
Status	Not operational
Start date	Apr-07
end date	Oct-07
Start date	May-10
end date	Oct-10
Start date	Mar-11
end date	Oct-11

 

Location	Brazilian Ferraz Station
Instrument type	Meteor radar of 36.9 MHz and a peak transmitter power of 30 kW
Instrument Information	Winds from ~ 78 to 99 km, number of meteor and daily mean temperature
Data format	files in HWD  format
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62°05’24.5″S, Long. 58°24’11.9″
URL(s)	not available yet
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr David C Fritts (Gats Inc). Email: dave at gats-inc.com and Dr Diego Janches (GSFC/NASA) Email: diego.janches at nasa.gov
Data Request Contact	The PI.  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to NSF grant ATM-0634650 and the PIs  informed before submission.
Status	Not operational
Start date	Mar-10
end date	Feb-12

 

Location	Comandante Ferraz Station
Instrument type	Spectral Airglow Temperature Imager
Instrument Information	OH (6-2) band intensity and rotational temperature around 87 km height
Data format	Raw spectral images in .fit format
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62°05’24.5″S, Long. 58°24’11.9″
URL(s)	not available yet
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Jose Valentin Bageston (INPE). Email: jose.bageston at inpe.br
Data Request Contact	The PI.  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to LUME-DAE/INPE and the PIs  informed before submission.
Status	Operational – wintertime data only
Start date	May-05
end date	Sep-05
Start date	Mar-06
end date	Aug-06
Start date	Mar-07
end date	Oct-07
Start date	May-08
end date	Aug-08
Start date	May-10
end date	Oct-10
Start date	Mar-11
end date	Oct-11

 

Location	Comandante Ferraz Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	VLF receiver
Instrument Information	AWESOME VLF system
Data format	amplitude and phase of VLF signal matlab format
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62o4’58”, Long. 58o23’39”
URL(s)	http://www.inpe.br/crs/pan/projetos_pesquisas/geoespaco.php; http://www.craam.mackenzie.br/home_craam.html?&L=2
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Emilia Correia (National Institute for Space Research and Center of Astronomy and Astrophysics of Mackenzie). Email: ecorreia at craam.mackenzie.br
Data Request Contact	The PI.
Status	Operational – all year
Start date	Jan-07
end date	—

 

Location	Comandante Ferraz Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	ionosonde
Instrument Information	CADI
Data format	CADI format
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62o4’58”, Long. 58o23’39”
URL(s)	http://www.inpe.br/crs/pan/projetos_pesquisas/geoespaco.php; http://www.craam.mackenzie.br/home_craam.html?&L=2
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Emilia Correia (National Institute for Space Research and Center of Astronomy and Astrophysics of Mackenzie). Email: ecorreia at craam.mackenzie.br
Data Request Contact	The PI.
Status	Operational – all year
Start date	Mar-09
end date	—

 

Location	Comandante Ferraz Station, Antarctica
Instrument type	riometer
Instrument Information	La Jolla riometer 30 and 35 MHz
Data format	raw binary data
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62o4’58”, Long. 58o23’39”
URL(s)	http://www.inpe.br/crs/pan/projetos_pesquisas/geoespaco.php; http://www.craam.mackenzie.br/home_craam.html?&L=2
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Emilia Correia (National Institute for Space Research and Center of Astronomy and Astrophysics of Mackenzie). Email: ecorreia at craam.mackenzie.br
Data Request Contact	The PI.
Status	Operational – all year
Start date	Mar-09
end date	—

 

King Sejong Station (Lat. 62°13S, Long. 58°47’W)

Location	King Sejong Station
Instrument type	All-sky imager
Instrument Information	OH / 557.7 nm / 630.0 nm airglow imager
Data format	All-sky airglow image to see horizontal structure and propagation of gravity waves. Apparent phase speed and wavelength are estimated.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62°13’S, Long. 58°47’W
URL(s)
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Geonhwa Jee (Korea Polar Research Institute). Email: ghjee at kopri.re.kr; Dr Jeong-Han Kim (Korea Polar Research Institute).  Email: jhkim at kopri.re.kr
Data Request Contact	Data can also be found via the Korea Polar Data Center (https://kpdc.kopri.re.kr/metadata/).  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to KOPRI (preferably through a doi) and the PI & KPDC informed before submission.
Status	Operational – wintertime data only
Start date	Mar-02
end date	Present

 

Location	King Sejong Station
Instrument type	Meteor radar (ATRAD)
Instrument Information	VHF meteor detection radar
Data format	Neutral wind profile within 80-100 km and temperature at near 90 km altitude.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62°13’S, Long. 58°47’W
URL(s)
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Geonhwa Jee (Korea Polar Research Institute). Email: ghjee at kopri.re.kr; Dr Jeong-Han Kim (Korea Polar Research Institute).  Email: jhkim at kopri.re.kr
Data Request Contact	Data can also be found via the Korea Polar Data Center (https://kpdc.kopri.re.kr/metadata/).  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to KOPRI (preferably through a doi) and the PI & KPDC informed before submission.
Status	Operational – year-round
Start date	Mar-07
end date	Present

 

Location	King Sejong Station
Instrument type	Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI)
Instrument Information	Three filtered (OH/557.7/630.0) FPI
Data format	3 dimensional neutral winds and temperature from the airglow emissions at around 87, 97, and 250 km altitudes.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 62°13’S, Long. 58°47’W
URL(s)
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Geonhwa Jee (Korea Polar Research Institute). Email: ghjee at kopri.re.kr; Dr Changsup Lee (Korea Polar Research Institute).  Email: cslee at kopri.re.kr
Data Request Contact	Data can also be found via the Korea Polar Data Center (https://kpdc.kopri.re.kr/metadata/).  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to KOPRI (preferably through a doi) and the PI & KPDC informed before submission.
Status	Operational – wintertime data only
Start date	Jan-17
end date	Present

Jang Bogo Station (Lat. 74°37’S, Long. 164°12’E)

Location	Jang Bogo Station
Instrument type	All-sky imager
Instrument Information	557.7 nm / 630.0 nm airglow imager
Data format	All-sky airglow image to see horizontal structure and propagation of gravity waves. Apparent phase speed and wavelength are estimated.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 74°37’S, Long. 164°12’E
URL(s)
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Young-Sil Kwak (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute).  Email: yskwak at kasi.re.kr
Data Request Contact	to be updated
Status	Operational – wintertime data only
Start date	Mar-17
end date	Present

 

Location	Jang Bogo Station
Instrument type	Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI)
Instrument Information	Three filtered (OH/557.7/630.0) FPI
Data format	3 dimensional neutral winds and temperature from the airglow emissions at around 87, 97, and 250 km altitudes.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 74°37’S, Long. 164°12’E
URL(s)
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Geonhwa Jee (Korea Polar Research Institute). Email: ghjee at kopri.re.kr; Dr Changsup Lee (Korea Polar Research Institute).  Email: cslee at kopri.re.kr
Data Request Contact	Data can also be found via the Korea Polar Data Center (https://kpdc.kopri.re.kr/metadata/).  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to KOPRI (preferably through a doi) and the PI & KPDC informed before submission.
Status	Operational – wintertime data only
Start date	Mar-14
end date	Present

 

Location	Jang Bogo Station
Instrument type	Vertical Incidence Pulsed Ionospheric Radar (VIPIR)
Instrument Information	Digital ionospheric sounder (Dynasonde)
Data format	Electron density profiles, ionospheric tilts and ion drifts in the bottom side ionosphere derived from ionograms and detected echoes
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 74°37’S, Long. 164°12’E
URL(s)
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Geonhwa Jee (Korea Polar Research Institute).  Email: ghjee at kopri.re.kr; Dr Changsup Lee (Korea Polar Research Institute).  Email: cslee at kopri.re.kr
Data Request Contact	Data can also be found via the Korea Polar Data Center (https://kpdc.kopri.re.kr/metadata/).  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to KOPRI (preferably through a doi) and the PI & KPDC informed before submission.
Status	Operational – year-round
Start date	Jan-17
end date	Present

 

Dasan station (Lat. 78° 55′ N, Lon. 11° 56 ‘ E)

Location	Dasan Station
Instrument type	Fourier Transform Spectrometer
Instrument Information	OH airglow spectrometer
Data format	Raw spectra from OH airglow measurement near 87 km altitude. Temperature and intensity can be determined from this raw spectra.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 78° 55′ N, Lon. 11° 56 ‘ E
URL(s)
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Geonhwa Jee (Korea Polar Research Institute). Email: ghjee at kopri.re.kr; Dr. Jeong-Han Kim (Korea Polar Research Institute).  Email: jhkim at kopri.re.kr
Data Request Contact	Data can also be found via the Korea Polar Data Center (https://kpdc.kopri.re.kr/metadata/).  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to KOPRI (preferably through a doi) and the PI & KPDC informed before submission.
Status	Not operational
Start date	Nov-02
end date	Feb-18

 

Location	Dasan Station
Instrument type	Fabry-Perot Interferometer
Instrument Information	Two filtered (630.0/732.0 nm) FPI
Data format	3 dimensional neutral/ion winds and temperatures from the airglow emissions at around 250/300 km altitudes.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 78° 55′ N, Lon. 11° 56 ‘ E
URL(s)
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Geonhwa Jee (Korea Polar Research Institute). Email: ghjee at kopri.re.kr; Dr. Jeong-Han Kim (Korea Polar Research Institute).  Email: jhkim at kopri.re.kr
Data Request Contact	Data can also be found via the Korea Polar Data Center (https://kpdc.kopri.re.kr/metadata/).  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to KOPRI (preferably through a doi) and the PI & KPDC informed before submission.
Status	Operational – wintertime data only
Start date	Oct-15
end date	Present

 

Sub-Antarctic

Tierra del Fuego, Argentina (Lat. 53° 46′ 48” S, Long. 67° 45′ 0” W)

Location	EARG, Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Instrument type	Rayleigh Lidar
Instrument Information	CORAL (Compact Rayleigh Autonomous Lidar)
Data format	Temperature with spatial and temporal resolution of 900m and 10min respectively. Altitude: 20-90km
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 53° 46′ 48” S, Long. 67° 45′ 0” W
URL(s)	http://kaifler.net/coral/
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr. Bernd Kaifler (German Aerospace Center). Email: bernd.kaifler at dlr.de
Data Request Contact	The PI.
Status	Operating – nighttime only
Start date	Nov-17
end date	active

ARCTIC

Kjell Henriksen Observatory, Svalbard, Norway (Lat. 78.148°N, Long. 16.043°E)

Location	Kjell Henriksen Observatory, Svalbard, Norway
Instrument type	1m Ebert Fastie Spectrometer
Instrument Information	OH(6-2) band of airglow
Data format	Raw spectra from which the OH temperature can be determined. Emitting layer at approx. 87 km
Geographic co-ordinates	GEO: 78.148 N, 16.043 E
URL(s)	http://kho.unis.no
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	PI: Prof. Fred Sigernes (UNIS) Email:fred.sigernes at unis.no
Data Request Contact	The PI
Status	Operational – northern hemisphere winter only
Start date	late 1980’s
end date	N/A

 

Location	Kjell Henriksen Observatory, Svalbard, Norway
Instrument type	All-sky Airglow Imager
Instrument Information	FOV 180 deg. Filter wheel w/ 4 filters + open + blocked. Notch @ 844.6nm, BP @ 844.6nm, BP @846.5, BP @ 840.0
Data format	Images w/ varius temporal resolution
Geographic co-ordinates	GEO: 78.148 N, 16.043 E
URL(s)	http://kho.unis.no
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	PI: Prof. Dag Lorentzen, email:dagl at unis.no
Data Request Contact	The PI
Status	Operational – northern hemisphere winter only
Start date	Dec 2010
end date	N/A

 

Kiruna, Sweden, (Lat. 67° 52′ N, Lon. 21° 14 ‘ E)

Location	Esrange Space Center, Kiruna
Instrument type	Fourier Transform Spectrometer
Instrument Information	OH airglow spectrometer
Data format	Raw spectra from OH airglow measurement near 87 km altitude. Temperature and intensity can be determined from this raw spectra.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 67° 52′ N, Lon. 21° 14 ‘ E
URL(s)
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Geonhwa Jee (Korea Polar Research Institute). Email: ghjee at kopri.re.kr; Dr. Jeong-Han Kim (Korea Polar Research Institute).  Email: jhkim at kopri.re.kr
Data Request Contact	Data can also be found via the Korea Polar Data Center (https://kpdc.kopri.re.kr/metadata/).  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to KOPRI (preferably through a doi) and the PI & KPDC informed before submission.
Status	Operational – wintertime data only
Start date	Sep-03
end date	Present

 

Location	Esrange Space Center, Kiruna
Instrument type	Fabry-Perot Interferometer
Instrument Information	Two filtered (630.0/732.0 nm) FPI
Data format	3 dimensional neutral/ion winds and temperatures from the airglow emissions at around 250/300 km altitudes.
Geographic co-ordinates	Lat. 67° 52′ N, Lon. 21° 14 ‘ E
URL(s)
Principal Investigator(s) and contact details.	Dr Geonhwa Jee (Korea Polar Research Institute). Email: ghjee at kopri.re.kr; Dr. Jeong-Han Kim (Korea Polar Research Institute).  Email: jhkim at kopri.re.kr
Data Request Contact	Data can also be found via the Korea Polar Data Center (https://kpdc.kopri.re.kr/metadata/).  All data used in presentations/publications must be credited to KOPRI (preferably through a doi) and the PI & KPDC informed before submission.
Status	Operational – wintertime data only
Start date	Oct-16
end date	Present