Proposed EISCAT/ESR operating modes
Here are six proposed operating modes for the EISCAT/ESR radars, described both
by text and by diagram. For each mode the diagrams come in two forms: GIF -
small, (5K) but poor resolution; PostScript - large, (70K) with high
resolution.
The diagrams are only sketches - they are not to scale. In each diagram,
subplot b is a view along the Longyearbyen (L) L-shell (dashed line in
subplot a) and subplot c is a view along the Tromsø
(T) magnetic meridian (dotted line in a); the second dotted line is
the magnetic meridian through Longyearbyen. The dotted circle is an
approximate f.o.v. of a 630nm camera at L, and the two fans are f.o.v.'s of the
two CUTLASS radars. u is the EISCAT UHF beam and v is that
for the VHF; circles are where the ESR beam is at 350km and squares are
tristatic points of the UHF, also at 350km.
Please have a look at these proposals and send any
comments or suggestions regarding these or any other possible configurations of
EISCAT/ESR to Mike Lockwood
(mike@eiscat.ag.rl.ac.uk)
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GBDC |
Planning
22-SEP-1995 Richard Stamper