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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Polar Data Centre (PDC) record GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00284
Date (Publication)
2022-03-22
Citation identifier
http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id= / GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00284
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

British Antarctic Survey

pdc@bas.ac.uk

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British Antarctic Survey

Polar Data Centre

pdc@bas.ac.uk

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Keywords

  • NDGO0001

NERC OAI Harvesting

  • NERC_DDC

GCMD Parameter Valids

  • 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

  • Environmental monitoring facilities

BAS Free-text keywords

  • geomagnetic conditions

  • helium content

  • ion concentrations

  • magnetic field lines

  • plasmaspheric electron concentration

  • plasmaspheric mass loading
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This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy.
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This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy.
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Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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Begin date
2001-12-01
End date
2002-12-01
Reference system identifier
OGP / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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    Polar Data Centre - British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

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    No
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    File identifier
    GB_NERC_BAS_PDC_00284 XML
    Metadata language
    English
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    Dataset
    Date stamp
    2022-03-22
    Metadata standard name

    NERC profile of ISO19115:2003
    Metadata standard version

    1.0
    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    British Antarctic Survey

    pdc@bas.ac.uk

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    http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/dms/metadata.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00284

     
     

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