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Incoherent Scatter Radars

Sondrestrom, Greenland

Ionospheric plasma

  • density
  • temperature
  • vecity
1290 MHz J. Kelly <kelly@sri.com>
Millstone Hill Observatory, Massachusetts, USA  440 MHz  J. Foster <jcf@hydra.haystack.edu>
Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico  430 MHz  C. Tepley <craig@naic.edu>
Jicamarca, Peru  50 MHz  D. Farley <donf@ee.cornell.edu>

MF Radars

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico Winds & tides (~70-100 km)

1.95 MHz

 M. Ierkic <ierkic@exodo.upr.clu.edu>
Barking Sands, Kauai, Hawaii, USA Winds (~70-100 km)

1.98 MHz

D. C. Fritts <dave@leonardo.colorado.edu>

   Frequency Agile Radar

EPCO, Resolute Bay, Canada Mesospheric winds, plasma irregularities

 2-50 MHz

 R. Tsunoda <Tsunoda@unix.sri.com>

   SuperDarn HF Coherent Scatter Radar Network

Arctic and Antarctic Regions Polar Convection

8-20 MHz

 R. Greenwald <ray_greenwald@jhuapl.edu>

   Julia Radar

Jicamarc, Peru Equatorial spread-F & sporadic-E

 50 MHz

B. Balsley <balsley@terra.colorado.edu>

  MEDAC Radar  (Attached to ST radars)

Biak, Indonesia  Winds (~70-100 km)

 50 MHz

 S. Avery <savery@numbat.colorado.edu>
Christmas Island
Darwin, Australia
Piura, Peru

   Meteor Radar

Durham, New Hampshire, USA  Winds (180-110 km)

38.6 MHz

 R. Clarke <ron.clard@unh.edu>

 Digital Ionosonde

Bear Lake Observatory,Utah, USA  Ionospheric layer height

 1.6-15 MHz

F. T. Berkey <berkey@psi.sci.sdl.usu.edu>

Scintillation Receivers

 Ancon, Peru Equatorial F-region scintillations

 244 MHz, L-band

 C.E. Valladares <cesar@dl5000.bc.edu>

* Taken from the Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions: CEDAR Phase III Report, 1996.

   


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