Very Low frequency (VLF) Doppler Radio Receiver data from Rothera, Antarctica in 2001-2002
Instrumentation was deployed in the Antarctic Peninsula region to monitor conditions occurring in the region of near-space surrounding the Earth. The opportunity was taken to link into a NASA satellite mission occurring at the same time and with similar goals - to study the dynamics of the Earth-Sun system at a location where the two systems are finely balanced.
The experiments have been used to interpret the changes in plasma composition at the same point in space due to solar weather events. A refurbished VLF Doppler receiver was installed at Rothera to measure plasmaspheric electron concentration. The electron number density was determined from analysis of the 15 minute integration providing group delay times, Doppler shift and arrival bearing of whistler-mode signals, of man-made transmissions, from MSK format transmitters from north east America.
If you would like more information about the VLF Doppler receiver data that is still being routinely collected at Rothera please contact the UK Polar Data Centre at the British Antarctic Survey.
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- Alternate title
- Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00284
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-03-22
- Identifier
- http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00284
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
- Keywords
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- NDGO0001
- NERC OAI Harvesting
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- NERC_DDC
- GCMD Parameter Valids
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Electricity > Total Electron Content
- EARTH SCIENCE > Sun-earth Interactions > Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Dynamics
- EARTH SCIENCE > Sun-earth Interactions > Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Dynamics > Electric Fields/Electric Currents
- EARTH SCIENCE > Sun-earth Interactions > Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Dynamics > Magnetic Storms
- INSPIRE themes
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- Environmental monitoring facilities
- BAS Free-text keywords
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- geomagnetic conditions
- helium content
- ion concentrations
- magnetic field lines
- plasmaspheric electron concentration
- plasmaspheric mass loading
- Use limitation
- This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy.
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy.
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2001-12-01
- End date
- 2002-12-01
- Reference system identifier
- OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
Domain consistency
- Measure identification
- INSPIRE / Conformity_001
Conformance result
- Date
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- No special comments
- File identifier
- GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00284 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2022-03-22
- Metadata standard name
- NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0