SuperDARN Collaboration with THEMIS Ray Greenwald, on behalf of the SuperDARN Community JHU/APL...

SuperDARN Collaboration with THEMIS

Ray Greenwald, on behalf of the SuperDARN Community

JHU/APL

THEMIS Workshop

December, 2005

SuperDARNNorthern Hemisphere

Orange and red-shaded radar fields are operational.

Mustard and pink radar fields are under develop-ment or planned.

Rankin Inlet will be opera-tional by Spring 2006.

Finland East and Hokkaido may be operational by Fall 2006.

There may be 11 auroral zone and polar cap radars operational by Fall 2006 as well as 2 sub-auroral radars.

Similar, but less extensive network in S. H.

SuperDARN Data Products

Data products include:

Vector electric fields

Vector plasma drifts

Global convection maps

Measurements cover:

Auroral zone

Polar cap

Subauroral regions.

Complementary to:

Satellite measurements

Ground magnetic observations

Ground optical measurements

Data from Wallops Radar and TIMED/GUVI

Real-Time and Archival Data

Backscattered power Line-of-sight velocity

Kapuskasing HF radar: April 6, 2000 1714-1716 UT

1000 m/s

-1000 m/s

30 dB

Real-Time and Archival Data

SuperDARN Scheduling Cycle

17 radars to coordinate - scheduling considered 2 months in advance

MONTHM

MONTHM-2

MONTHM-3

SuperDARN spacecraft working group invites proposals of favorable intervals• “darn-space” mailing list• Cluster GBWG mailing list

Shortlist of intervals spanning a subset of conjunctionSubmitted to the SuperDARN scheduling working group

Radar experiments run

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Scheduling Approach

Orbit/footprint plots originally intended for SuperDARN scheduling (Jim Wild, Leic. & Gareth Chisham, BAS)

Now feed into EISCAT scheduling (Ian McCrea, RAL)

Uses publicly available data

PGP files

MSP(Cluster)/MSOP(DSP)

Footprint trace using T96 model

PSW=2nPa, DST=0 nT

IMF BY = IMF BZ =0 nT

SuperDARN Spacecraft Working Group

Date UT hours comment (*=priority)

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02/10 12-24 12 Cusp

05/10 12-24 12 Plasma/current sheet


07/10 06-18 12 Cusp




12/10 00-24 06 Cusp & Plasma/current sheet *


15/10 06-24 18 Plasma/current sheet *

19/10 03-15 12 Cusp


22/10 06-24 18 Plasma/current sheet *

24/10 00-12 12 Cusp *

28/10 12-24 12 Cusp (southern hemisphere)

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Total 186h (7d18h)

November 2005 conjunctions:

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We would be grateful if you would start to consider the equivalent operations for November 2005. Cluster orbit and footprint plots can be found via anonymous FTP at...

machine: cluster.ion.le.ac.uk

directory: c1_pgp_orbit_plots

...which contains the Cluster orbit/footprint plots (Cluster 1 only, 1 gzipped ps file= 1 month).

If you are also interested in considering the corresponding orbit/footprint for the equatorial DoubleStar spacecraft (known as TC1) then the directory "all_pgp_orbit_plots" on the same machine contains new style plots showing DoubleStar and Cluster (1 gzipped ps file= 1 month). Daily jpg plots of the same format can be found in "daily_orbit_plots" (the new style orbit plots in .gif format 1 file = 1

day) and "daily_footprint_plots" (the new style footprint plots in .gif format 1 file = 1 day).

Suggestions for November 2005 conjunctions by the end of August please!

Best wishes, Jim Wild and Gareth Chisham (SuperDARN spacecraft working

group)

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