SuperDARN real time products for Space Weather Ermanno Amata INAF Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario Roma ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November 2008.

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SuperDARN real time products for Space Weather Ermanno Amata INAF Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario Roma ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November Credits to the SuperDARN community (

Outline SuperDARN and its principle of operation Mesospheric winds product MUF and foF2 products Convection maps and transpolar potential drop (including the description of a couple of events) ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November 2008.

SuperDARN Fields of View

HF propagation RefractionBack-scattering Doppler shift ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November Absorption Phase and amplitude fluctuations Principle of operation of SuperDARN

ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November SuperDARN principle of operation Ionosphere Back-scattered HF signal: echo Field aligned density irregularities B

ground Milan et al., 1997 ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November Two kinds of scatter, i.e from: ionosphere Both kinds can be used: for different purposes. Even the absence of scatter could be used.

ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November SuperDARN facts Almost all radars form pairs covering roughly the same area from different directions. 16 azimuthal bins covering 52°. 75 range gates, 45 km each. Time for full azimuth-range scan: 1-2 min. Special modes allowed: e.g. one fixed beam with 3 s resolution. Some radars operate in the STEREO mode (Leicester Un., UK), which allows to sound the f-o-v at two different frequencies: e.g. full 2D scan at f 1; 3s resolution along a single beam at f 2. Monthly planning approved by all PI’s.

One day of SuperDARN echoes ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November 2008.

SuperDARN and Space Weather Space Weather Science - Solar wind – magnetosphere coupling - Location of magnetospheric boundaries - Occurrence of radar echoes in relation with SW conditions Space Weather Real-time data products - Normal echoes  Convection maps and polar cap potential (in operation) - Ground scatter  HF propagation conditions (not in operation) - Near range echoes  Mesospheric winds (not in operation) ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November 2008.

Outline SuperDARN and its principle of operation Mesospheric winds product MUF and foF2 products Convection maps and transpolar potential drop (including the description of a couple of events) ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November 2008.

Mesospheric wind measurements from SuperDARN low range echoes 400 meteor echoes/hour Meteor echoes daily rate at Halley radar in 1996 Echoes are classed as meteor echoes if: - the spectral width is less than 50 m s −1 and greater than 1 m s −1, - the range is less than 500 km, - the backscattered power is greater than 3 dB above the background. From the selected data we can calculate: - l-o-s-v as a function of azimuth, beam and time; - average meridional and zonal velocities as a function of time.

ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November Mesospheric wind velocity (23 Dec 1997, beam 3 of Halley radar) This service is not in operation. An archive is available at BAS ( The service will be taken over by the Alaska SuperDARN group and is expected to be in operation again in the second half of 2009, first for the northern hemisphere, later on for the southern hemisphere. Jenkins and Jarvis, Earth Planets Space, 51, 685–689, 1999

Outline SuperDARN and its principle of operation Mesospheric winds product MUF and foF2 products Convection maps and transpolar potential drop (including the description of a couple of events) ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November 2008.

MUF product Simple case: radiowave propagating in an unmagnetized, horizontally stratified, single layer ionosphere. Rays at a frequency f 0 will be reflected if ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November where where   is the takeoff angle measured from the horizontal As As   increases, the distance reached by the signal after refraction decreases until a minimum distance is reached: f 0 is the MUF at that distance. and f c is the ionospheric critical frequency.  max “skip distance”

ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November MUF product During SuperDARN scans there are 12 s per min during which no data are collected. Hughes et al. (2002) developed an operating mode known as the “sounding mode” that makes use of these 12 s to collect data useful for space weather studies. For each radar operating in the sounding mode, a table of frequencies is defined that typically consists of approximately 8 entries equally spaced between 10 and 18 MHz. During the time available between azimuth scans, the sounding mode steps through this frequency table for each beam direction using 1 s integration periods. The amount of time required to record a full sounding mode scan varies with the number of frequencies but is typically in the range 5-15 min.

MUF at 3000 km for the Kodiak radar, averaged over all beams, for 3.5 days in 2001 ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November MUF for the Kodiak radar on 23 June 2001 (22:39-22:55 UT)

foF2 product ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November As, As SuperDARN allows to measure , the determination of the skip distance at various frequencies yields the vertical incidence critical frequency foF2 in the ionosphere above the point at half the skip distance. We recall that fcfc fcfc fcfc “skip distances”

foF2 product ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November Scan period: 00:05:41 – 00:20:49 UT Number of data points:295

foF2 product ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November This service was in operation a few years ago. Not operating now. Should be put on line again by the Alaska group in the second half of (Hughes et al., (Hughes et al., Annales Geophysicae, 20, 1023–1030, 2002) Gakona, Alaska Red: foF2 from the HAARP digisonde. Blue: foF2 from real time Kodiak data Green: foF2 from Kodiak using the correct virtual height

Radio blackout due to absorption (possible future product) ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November 2008.

Outline SuperDARN and its principle of operation Mesospheric winds product MUF and foF2 products Convection maps and transpolar potential drop (including the description of a couple of events) ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November 2008.

SuperDARN Fields of View

Equatorward motion of poleward flows down to 55° Mlat associated with IMF southward turning. Example of how mid-latitude radars enhance the SuperDARN capabilities ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November 2008.

Convection maps - Basic SD data product - Available in real time with 2-min resolution - Derivation from line of sight velocities - Fit data to IMF-dependent statistical model - Grid of E-field value - Polar cap potential ESWW5, Bruxelles, 20 November

North South 22:45 UT: IMF rotation. In this case, the northern and southern ionospheres have different response times.

Higher equatorial E in general corresponds to higher CPCP. Lower equatorial E in general corresponds to lower high latitude CPCP. E y measured by the Jicamarca radar ( Huang et al, 2007 ) E y measured in the Solar Wind 5 April 2003 CPCP( Amata et al, 2008 )

SuperDARNReal Time AMIELiMIE + Large area of coverage Only needs SW data Short delay (~10 min)Magnetometer data almost always available Direct measurement of V Short delay (~10 min) Large scale of coverage Provides Joule heating and B-aligned currents - Often not a lot of scatter Needs  model (V not directly measured) Statistical model: not a real measurement Not all MLT’s are covered Not all MLT sectors are covered Polar cap may expand equatorwarsd of fov’s

Dome C radars 2009 Siberian radars >2009

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