TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of the accomplishments of mid-latitude Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) HF radars
AU - Nishitani, Nozomu
AU - Ruohoniemi, John Michael
AU - Lester, Mark
AU - Baker, Joseph Benjamin Harold
AU - Koustov, Alexandre Vasilyevich
AU - Shepherd, Simon G.
AU - Chisham, Gareth
AU - Hori, Tomoaki
AU - Thomas, Evan G.
AU - Makarevich, Roman A.
AU - Marchaudon, Aurélie
AU - Ponomarenko, Pavlo
AU - Wild, James A.
AU - Milan, Stephen E.
AU - Bristow, William A.
AU - Devlin, John
AU - Miller, Ethan
AU - Greenwald, Raymond A.
AU - Ogawa, Tadahiko
AU - Kikuchi, Takashi
N1 - Funding Information:
This review paper originated from approximately one-week long workshops in January 2017 and January 2018, during which we discussed the content of the paper, its structure and future directions of the mid-latitude Super-DARN network. These workshops were carried out by the joint research program of the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, and supported by funding agencies described in the ‘funding’ section. Finally, we would like to thank everyone who contributed to the completion of the review paper.
Funding Information:
SuperDARN is a collection of radars funded by national scientific funding agencies of Australia, Canada, China, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States of America. Organization of the workshops for writing up the present review paper was supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research): Study of dynamical variation of particles and waves in the inner magnetosphere using ground-based network observations (PWING), Project Number: 16H06286. Completion of the present review paper was partly supported by JSPS (Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research), Project Number: 18KK0099. Part of the work of TH was done at the ERG-Science Center operated by ISAS/JAXA and Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE) /Nagoya University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) is a network of high-frequency (HF) radars located in the high- and mid-latitude regions of both hemispheres that is operated under international cooperation. The network was originally designed for monitoring the dynamics of the ionosphere and upper atmosphere in the high-latitude regions. However, over the last approximately 15 years, SuperDARN has expanded into the mid-latitude regions. With radar coverage that now extends continuously from auroral to sub-auroral and mid-latitudes, a wide variety of new scientific findings have been obtained. In this paper, the background of mid-latitude SuperDARN is presented at first. Then, the accomplishments made with mid-latitude SuperDARN radars are reviewed in five specified scientific and technical areas: convection, ionospheric irregularities, HF propagation analysis, ion-neutral interactions, and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Finally, the present status of mid-latitude SuperDARN is updated and directions for future research are discussed. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
AB - The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) is a network of high-frequency (HF) radars located in the high- and mid-latitude regions of both hemispheres that is operated under international cooperation. The network was originally designed for monitoring the dynamics of the ionosphere and upper atmosphere in the high-latitude regions. However, over the last approximately 15 years, SuperDARN has expanded into the mid-latitude regions. With radar coverage that now extends continuously from auroral to sub-auroral and mid-latitudes, a wide variety of new scientific findings have been obtained. In this paper, the background of mid-latitude SuperDARN is presented at first. Then, the accomplishments made with mid-latitude SuperDARN radars are reviewed in five specified scientific and technical areas: convection, ionospheric irregularities, HF propagation analysis, ion-neutral interactions, and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. Finally, the present status of mid-latitude SuperDARN is updated and directions for future research are discussed. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
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U2 - 10.1186/s40645-019-0270-5
DO - 10.1186/s40645-019-0270-5
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85063235561
SN - 2197-4284
VL - 6
JO - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
JF - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
IS - 1
M1 - 27
ER -