MITHRAS: a Brief Description

Authors

O de la Beaujardiere
Vincent B. Wickwar, Utah State UniversityFollow
M J. Baron
J Holt
R M. Wand
W L. Oliver
P Bauer
M Blanc
C Senior
D Alcayde
G Caudal
J Foster
E Nielsen
R Heelis

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Radio Science

Volume

19

Issue

2

Publication Date

1984

First Page

665

Last Page

673

Abstract

Between May 1981 and June 1982 an intensive campaign of 33 coordinated observations was carried out using the three incoherent-scatter radars capable of probing the auroral zone. During this period the groups operating the Dynamic Explorer satellites and the STARE radar made special efforts to acquire data coincident with the radar observations. The objective of these MITHRAS experiments and subsequent analysis is to further our understanding of the interactions of the magnetosphere, the ionosphere, and the thermosphere, with special emphasis on local time/universal time variations. Three experimental modes with different time resolution and spatial coverage were used to examine different aspects of these interactions. The analysis of the extensive data set involves collaboration among groups of experimenters as well as between experimenters and theoreticians.

Comments

Published by American Geophysical Union in Radio Science. Publisher PDF available for download through link above.

Recommended Citation

de la Beaujardière, O., et al. (1984), MITHRAS: A brief description, Radio Sci., 19(2), 665–673, doi:10.1029/RS019i002p00665.