Updated 2003-06-19
Objective: to determine how solar activity influences temperatures, winds,
electric currents and minor constituents and to allow possible anthropogenic
influences to be determined. Uses primarily measurements by the ESRAD
and EISCAT radars, plus ground-based and balloon-borne measurements of
atmospheric electric fields and currents.
This is not a National Implementation Plan (NIP) project
Time frame
- Status
- Ongoing
- Project time span
- 1999 - 2020
- Data collection
- not specified
- Data processing
- not specified
- Data reporting
- not specified
Data availability
- Are data archived or planned to be archived at an AMAP Thematic Data Centre?
- no
- If no (or only part of data are reported to a TDC), where and how are (other) data stored?
- Data are stored at IRF.
Data can be provided on request after an agreement on the
use of the data has been made.
- References to key publications (or planned publications) and data reports
- http://www.irf.se/upatm/epubs/
- Samples/specimens archived in specimen banks?
- No
Methods & Procedures
- Procedures and methodology used for, e.g., sampling and sample storage, sample pretreatment, extraction and analysis, including which laboratories are involved, references to methods employed, etc.
Research is primarily based on ionosphere and upper
atmosphere measurements by the EISCAT , ESRAD and Univ.
Wales SkiYmet radars , complemented by local observations
from cameras, the Univ. Bonn lidar , and meteorological
databases.
Additional Information
- Is this a bi- AND multi-lateral project (i.e. a project involving cooperation between different countries)?
- Yes
- Other institutes involved in the project
EISCAT Scientific Association
University of Wales
University of Bonn
Research is primarily based on ionosphere and upper atmosphere measurements by the EISCAT , ESRAD and Univ. Wales SkiYmet radars , complemented by local observations from cameras, the Univ. Bonn lidar , and meteorological databases.