GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

The following is a list of ground-based observation sites which may generate data of interest during joint ground-based/space-based campaigns including IACG campaigns and other campaigns involving the IACG core spacecraft. The lists include all of the observation sites known to the author and are intended as a planning tool for combined space-based and ground-based campaigns and a support tool for the subsequent coordinated data analysis activities. A number of the pages are under construction and may contain incomplete information; please send additions and corrections to Michael J Teague. The following information is included in these pages:

• Lists and plots of the ground-based networks, station locations and instruments associated with the NASA Global Geospace Science spacecraft project; homepage references are given.

• Lists of the ground-based projects and instruments involving observations at a single facility; homepage references are given.

• Lists and plots of ground-based networks including station locations and instruments; homepage references are given.

• Lists and plots of ground-based sites by observation type to buy a food for dogs with project and site contact points.

• Lists of data sources for ground-based data.

• Summary plots of total ground-station coverage

• Campaigns for which world map projections are available showing spacecraft magnetic foottracks and ground-station coverage.

The networks listed are used in conjunction with world map plots showing the magnetic foottracks and sub-satellite points of relevant spacecraft during certain campaign periods:

• IACG Tail Campaign

• International Auroral Study (future)

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The following are summary plots of the ground-station coverage:

• Northern Hemisphere polar projection

• Southern Hemisphere polar projection

• Mercator World Map

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Certain ground-based observatories are formally associated with the Global Geospace Science (GGS) project and routinely provide Key Parameter data to the Central Data Handling Facility (CDHF) at GSFC:

• CANOPUS - Canadian Auroral Network for the OPEN Program Unified Study. Radar, Photometer, All Sky Imager, Magnetometer and Riometer.

• SuperDARN- Dual Auroral Radar Network

• SESAME - Satellite Experiments Simultaneous with Antarctic Measurements

• Sondrestrom

A variety of these Key Parameter data are available from the Science Planning and Operations Facility and the National Space Science Data Center.

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The following additional project sites are identified:

• AEOS - Advanced Electro-Optical System

• ALIS - Auroral Large Scale Imaging System

• ALOMAR - Lidar Observatory for Middle Atmosphere Research

• EISCAT - Scandinavaian Radar System

• Millstone Hill

• Poker Flats

• Arecibo

• Jicamarca

• Kharkov

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The following additional networks sites are given:

• AGONET - Antarctic Geospace Observatory Network. Magnetometer, Riometer, Photometer and VLF Noise.

• Greenland Magnetometer Network/MAGIC - Magnetometer Array on the Greenland Ice Cap

• IMAGE - International Monitor for Auroral Geomagnetic Effect. Magnetometer.

• INTERMAGNET

• MACCS - Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies

• MLTCS - Mesosphere, Lower Thermosphere Coupling Study. Various Radars. Interferometers, Photometers and All Sky Cameras.

• 210 deg Meridian Magnetometer Chain

• PENGUIN - Polar Experiment Network for Geophysical Upper-Atmosphere Investigations

• SAMNET - Sub-Auroral Magnetometer Network

• The following sites are listed by observation type:
  
  
  • Radars:
    • Incoherent Scatter Radars
    • Middle Atmosphere Radars
    • Coherent Scatter Radars (SuperDARN)
  
  
  • All-Sky Imagers including All-Sky Cameras, Digital Cameras and Auroral TVs
  
  
  • Interferometers including Fabry-Perot and Michelson interferometers
  
  
  • Photometers including Meridian-Scan photometers and Scanning Infrared Radiometers
  
  
  • Global Magnetometers from STEP Project 6.4
  
  
  • Spectrometers including Auroral, Optical, Imaging, Microwave and UV spectrometers
  
  
  • Riometers including Imaging riometers
  
  
  • Ionosondes including Digital ionosondes and Total Electron Content measurements
  
  
  • Receivers including ELF,VLF, and LF,MF and HF
  
  
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  The following data sources are identified:

  
  
  • CEDAR - National Science Foundation (NSF) Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions program including data from incoherent scatter, middle atmosphere and HF radars and Fabry-Perot interferometers.
  
  
  • AGONET - Antarctic Geospace Observatory Network
  
  
  • NGDC - NOAA National Geophysical Data Center including global magnetometer data.
  
  
  • UARC - NSF Upper Atmosphere Research Collaboratory including a variety of near real-time data from Sondrestrom.
  
  
  • GEM - NSF Geospace Environment Modeling Program
  
  
  • ALIS - Auroral Large Scale Imaging System
  
  
  • NOAA/SEL - Space Environment Laboratory
  
  
  • Cluster/GBDC - Ground-Based Data Center
  
  
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  (M.J.T.)