Visit of Nagatsuma-san and PWING team of Shiokawa-san to the SuperDARN radar site at Kapuskasing, Ontario

By: miker on: Sun., Dec. 25, 2016 01:31 PM EST (10577 Reads)

The PI of the King Salmon SuperDARN radar, Dr. Tsutomu Nagatsuma of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT/Tokyo) paid a visit in early December to the site of the Kapuskasing radar during a trip to install a set of instruments in northern Ontario as part of the PWING project of Dr. Kazuo Shiokawa-san of the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE/Nagoya University). The tour was conducted by Mr. Ghislain Leboeuf who maintains the Kapuskasing radar for the Virginia Tech group. Temperatures were on the chilly side!

The first campaign involving SuperDARN, PWING, and the ERG satellite mission is planned for March 2017.

Pictured from left to right: Mitsu Ozaki (Kanazawa U.), Takumi Dejima (Kanazawa U.), Kohei Iida (Nagoya U.), Ghislain, Hiro Uchino (Kyoto U.), and Tsutomu Nagatsuma (NICT)
Photo credit: Masahito Nose (Kyoto U.)

PWING stands for study of dynamical variations of Particles and Waves in the INner magnetosphere using Ground-based network observations. The PI is Dr. Shiokawa-san of the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research (ISEE/Nagoya University)

The complex of instruments installed by Shiokawa-san and his team for the PWING project includes:

-VLF antenna
-induction coil magnetometer
-riometer

Installation of an all-sky camera is scheduled for Feb-March 2017.

The site for the installation is located near Moonbeam, a small town about 20 km east of Kapuskasing on the Trans-Canada highway.

PWING project:

The goal of the PWING project is collaborative research of the inner magnetosphere using ground-based instruments at auroral latitudes. See details at

http://www.isee.nagoya-u.ac.jp/dimr/PWING/en/

The PSTEP project is also led by Nagoya University. The letters stand for Project for Solar-Terrestrial Environment Prediction. The PI is Dr. Kusano-sensei. Find out more at

http://www.pstep.jp/?lang=en

Visit of Nagatsuma-san and PWING team of Shiokawa-san to the SuperDARN radar site at Kapuskasing, Ontario

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