The Southern Hemisphere Auroral Radar Experiment (SHARE)

Dudeney, J. R.; Baker, K. B.; Stoker, P. H.; Walker, A. D. M.. 1994 The Southern Hemisphere Auroral Radar Experiment (SHARE). Antarctic Science, 6 (1). 123-124. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102094000155

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Abstract/Summary

The near Earth space environment (known as Geospace) is dominated by the interaction between the solar wind and the geomagnetic field, which creates the magnetosphere. Considerable energy flows from the solar wind into the magnetosphere and ends up in the Earth's upper atmosphere (the thermosphere and ionosphere). The coupling of the geomagnetic field with that of the solar wind (known as the interplanetary magnetic field, or IMF) produces a variety of electro-dynamic responses with signatures such as electric fields and currents in the polar ionospheres. These produce, inter alia, motion of the ionospheric plasma (at altitudes between 100 and 1000kms) which can be monitored from the ground using radar techniques. Analysis of such plasma motion provides a very powerful means of investigating the nature of the interactions taking place at the boundaries between the magnetosphere and the solar wind. To do this effectively requires simultaneous measurements over as large an area (in latitude and longitude) as possible.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102094000155
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Pre 2000 programme
ISSN:	0954-1020
Date made live:	25 Jan 2017 09:35 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516026

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