Most advanced space weather radar to be built in Arctic
23 August, 2017
The most advanced space weather radar in the world is to be built in the Arctic by an international partnership including the UK, thanks to new investment, including in the …
The UK EISCAT support group (UKESG) is a collaboration between the British Antarctic Survey and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, funded via the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
EISCAT, the European Incoherent Scatter Association, is a scientific organization that facilitates research on the atmosphere and space weather using high power ionospheric radars in the Arctic.
The UK is one of the six members of the association. This gives UK scientists access to the facilities operated by EISCAT and the archive of data stretching back to the mid-1980s.
The facilities include three radars: two near the Norwegian city of Tromsø and a third on Svalbard. The radars measure properties of the Earth’s ionosphere (density & temperature) and can observe from the troposphere to the top of the ionosphere (~2000 km altitude).
UK scientists have access to the data taken by the radars (stretching back to the mid 1980s) and can apply for observing time to run their own experiments.
UKESG provides expert help in developing and running experiments and in the interpretation of the measurements.
EISCAT UK science support provides support to all of the UK groups using the EISCAT facilities, either directly or indirectly.
Some specific objectives are to:
23 August, 2017
The most advanced space weather radar in the world is to be built in the Arctic by an international partnership including the UK, thanks to new investment, including in the …