Sondrestrom IS Radar





Contact Person: Craig Heinselman (craig.heinselman@sri.com)
Web Pages: http://isr.sri.com home page (Click on 'Library of plots' for quick-look plots based on antenna mode)
http://isr.sri.com/radar.html for radar schedule and inventory inventory lists of past experiments
http://transport.sri.com/madrigal for the recently implemented Madrigal Database.
[NOTE: Only about 30% of the Sondrestrom data are in the CEDAR Database.]
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: The Sondrestrom incoherent scatter radar is supported by the National Science Foundation.

  • Instrument/Model Description
  • LTCS Description
  • References
  • Kindat (kind of data analysis) list
  • Plots
    1. 1980's Plots
    2. 1990's Plots
    3. 2000's Plots


    Instrument/Model Description

    The incoherent scatter transmitter station at Kangerlussuaq (Sondrestrom), Greenland (66.99N, 50.95W, 185m ASL) has been in operation since February, 1983. It was moved from Chatanika, Alaska in 1982-1983, where it operated from July 1971 to March 1982. On day 359 of 2001 at 110 km altitude, the apex magnetic coordinates were (73.0, 40.5) degrees. The magnetic inclination and declination angles were 80.1 deg and -35.2 deg. The magnetic local time at 0000 Universal Time (UT) is about 2137 MLT. The solar local time (SLT) is UT minus 3 hours and 24 minutes (-50.95/15.=-3.397).

    There are many pulse types used at Sondrestrom, and the modes that have been used for world day measurements are briefly described here. A more detailed description of the mode used for each experiment is given in that experiment's data (CMODEXP).