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Ionosphere Mesosphere Polar Aeronomy Campaign (IMPAC) 2009

Station Locations

Introduction

With imminent arrival of the Advanced Modula Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) at Resolute, polar aeronomy will enter a new era with more powerful observation capability. The Resolute AMISR will enable new observations of the polar ionosphere and thermosphere to address many pressing issues related to the thermosphere-ionosphere interaction and ionosphere-magnetosphere coupling. Optical observations will be an important of part of future collaborative research. While ISR has more centralized operation and data processing, optical observations are more distributed and decentralized. To facilitate future joint research effort and lay a foundation, we organize this optical observation campaign to build an organizational infrastructure.

To begin with, we build this wiki web to allow investigators to contribute their analysis and data plots. We have selected a few time periods during the 2008/2009 northern winter season for analysis. The one criterion is for a small substorm. Other possibility may be the stratospheric warming event started in later January 2009 and is still ongoing at the time we created this page. We also plan to provide TIEGCM model results for comparison with observations.

We expect all participants will follow rule of road of the CEDAR database, when using others data for their research.

We are organizing a CEDAR workshop to discuss our research results on the following selected time periods. The CEDAR workshop is to be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico from June 28 to July 2, 2009. Everyone interested is welcome to participate and contribute to our discussion.

If you have any suggestions and comments please contact

Qian Wu
qwu@ucar.edu
NCAR/HAO
P.O.Box 3000
Boulder, Co 80307-3000
303 497 2176

Selected Periods

December 20-27 2008

current conditions

Lead Person:Qian Wu
Objective: We want to study thermospheric wind during a small substorm event.
Major Features: A substorm started in the middle of Dec 22 and ended on Dec 25.
Deadline for contribution:
Deadline for first draft of the paper:
- Solar Wind condition:Solar Wind & IMF (choose omni with mag field and solar wind)
- Geomagnetic condition:Kp Index

index used in model run

- Stratosphere condition:Strato Temp

Observations

Resolute

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:Fabry-Perot Interferometer instrument page
Contributor:Qian Wu
- Data Plots:

Resolute 6300 Data
Dec 20, 2008	Dec 21, 2008	Dec 22, 2008	Dec 23, 2008
Dec 24, 2008	Dec 25, 2008	Dec 26, 2008	Dec 27, 2008

File:Example.jpg

- Notes:

Weather condition

- - Dec 20 up to 4 AM broken sky afterward overcast light snow
  - Dec 21 light snow overcast clear from 11 to midnight
  - Dec 22 light snow clear 4:00 PM to midnight
  - Dec 23 mostly clear
  - Dec 24 clear partly cloudy light snow
  - Dec 25 up to 9 AM clear to few cloud 9 to midnight overcast
  - Dec 26 clear up to 3 AM
  - Dec 27 broken sky most of the day

- More Analysis:
- Correlation with observations from other stations and instruments:

Sondrestrom

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:Fabry-Perot Interferometer instrument page
Contributor:Rick Niciejewski
- Data Plots:

Sondrestrom Data
Day 355	Day 356	Day 357	Day 358
Day 359	Day 360	Day 361	Day 362

File:Example.jpg

- Notes:
- More Analysis:
- Correlation with observations from other stations and instruments:

Poker Flat

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:Imaging Fabry-Perot Interferometer & All sky camera
Contributor:Mark Conde
- Data Plots:Data Site
- Notes:
- More Analysis:
- Correlation with observations from other stations and instruments:

Poker Flat Data
Day 355 Dec 20	Day 356 Dec 21	Day 357 Dec 22	Day 358 Dec 23
Day 359 Dec 24	Day 360 Dec 25	Day 361 Dec 26	Day 362 Dec 27

- Notes for days 360 and 361 ONLY:

- - The blue without letters is from Mark's all sky FPI (zonal)
  - The redline without letters is from Mark's all sky FPI (Meridional)
  - The green line is from Mark's all sky FPI (vertical)

Comparison with TIEGCM

- More Analysis:
- Correlation with observations from other stations and instruments:

Eureka

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:
Contributor:
- Data Plots:
- Notes:
- More Analysis:

Bear Island

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:
Contributor:
- Data Plots:
- Notes:
- More Analysis:

Sodankyla

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:Fabry-Perot Interferometer
Contributor:Anasuya Aruliah
- Data Plots:data link
- Notes:
- More Analysis:

Longyearbyen

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:Fabry-Perot Interferometer
Contributor:Anasuya Aruliah
- Data Plots:data link
- Notes:
- More Analysis:

Kiruna

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:Fabry-Perot Interferometer
Contributor:Anasuya Aruliah
- Data Plots:data link
- Notes:
- More Analysis:

Poker

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:Fabry-Perot Interferometer 1
Contributor:John Meriwether
- Data Plots:

Poker Data
Xxx.jpg Day 355	Xxx.jpg Day 356	Xxx.jpg Day 357	Xxx.jpg Day 358
Xxx.jpg Day 359	Day 360 Dec 25-26	Day 361 Dec 26-27	Xxx.jpg Day 362

- Notes:
- More Analysis:
- Correlation with observations from other stations and instruments:

Instrument:Fabry-Perot Interferometer 2
Contributor:John Meriwether & Aaron Ridley
- Data Plots:
- Notes:
- More Analysis:
- Correlation with observations from other stations and instruments:

Fort Yukon

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:Fabry-Perot Interferometer
Contributor:John Meriwether
- Data Plots:
- Notes:
- More Analysis:
- Correlation with observations from other stations and instruments:

Eagle

Weather:Go to historical data
Instrument:Fabry-Perot Interferometer
Contributor:John Meriwether
- Data Plots:
- Notes:
- More Analysis:
- Correlation with observations from other stations and instruments:

Model Simulation

Model: TIEGCM
Contributor:
Notes:

Station View

TIMEGCM Simulation
Eagle	Fort Yukon	Kiruna	Longyearbyen
Poker	Resolute	Sodankyla	Sondrestorm

TIMEGCM Simulation
Day 356 Ion Drift	Day 356 Neutral	Day 357 Ion Drift	Day 357 Neutral

Polar View Ion Drift

Polar View Neutral Wind

Analysis

Discussion

Contributor:
Contributor:

References

Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Article 4