John Foster, MIT/Haystack, jcf@haystack.mit.edu
Skaggs 2A-305, 1:30-3:30 PM
Monday, June 26, 2000
The CEDAR WLS working group is concerned with the scheduling, execution, and analysis of coordinated experiments directed towards obtaining comprehensive, global datasets which detail the upper atmospheric signatures and consequences of magnetospheric substorms. Coordinated incoherent scatter radar experiments, using the World Day program, have formed the core of the WLS data taking operations and these experiments have been incorporated into the Space Weather Month (Sept. 1998) and SPARC collaboratory multi-instrument/participant campaigns. Real-time monitors of disturbance/substorm conditions (http://www.haystack.edu/~jcf/realt.htm) and shared datasets have been employed to permit real-time analysis (e.g. SPARC) and experiment modification. Observation intervals have included a number of major storms September 25 1998 Magnetic Storm (http://www.haystack.edu/~jcf/sep98.htm), as well as intervals of repetitive substorm activity [Wide-Latitude Substorm Study - October 1998 (http://www.haystack.edu/~jcf/oct98.htm). The CEDAR 2000 WLS workshop will combine a review of phenomena observed during the Sept. 1999 Space Weather month, as well as current status of projects arising from WLS campaign operations. A WLS WWW page summarizes preliminary radar/ground-based observations made during the Wide-Latitude Substorm Study - September 15-17, 1999 (http://www.haystack.edu/~jcf/wls_sep99.htm). During the workshop, Arecibo and Jicamarca observations related to the expansion of the equatorial anomaly to higher latitudes, and related effects will be presented. Millstone Hill observations of the effects of polarization-jet electric fields at sub-auroral latitude will be discussed.