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Upper Atmospheric Facilities
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Components of the UAF Program

• Five incoherent scatter radar facilities
• Partial funding for SuperDARN
• Half of CEDAR Program
• Lidar Consortium
• Contributions to CCMC and Space Weather
• Miscellaneous awards
• AMISR Construction (Mgmt.)
• Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling
  (Mgmt.)

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Facility Award Status

• Sondrestrom Renewal proposal being reviewed for
  start early in FY09
• Millstone Five-year award initiated in FY08
• Arecibo New award initiated in FY05 expires
  March 2010
• Jicamarca Five-year award initiated in FY05
  (Hysell replaced Farley as PI of new award)
• AMISR Five-year operations award started in
  FY06
• SuperDARN Five-year award initiated in FY05
  jointly funded with AER, MAG, and Polar Programs

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Facility Award Status (cont.)

• AMISR ConstructionFour year award initiated in
  FY03 still in progress
• Lidar Consortiumfour-institution collaborative
  project initiated in Aeronomy and transferred to
  UAF in FY07.
• UAF sharing of CEDAR program with Aeronomy ended
  after FY06. Exchanged for Lidar Consortium.
• AMISR graduate student support and optics awards
  competed in FY06.

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Additional Usage Indicators for UAFs

• Number of data users (individually and
  institutionally)
• Number of papers published using data (with and
  without facility staff co-authorship)
• Number of students using data and number of
  theses based on UAF data
• Number of operating hours requested
• Number of ancillary instruments at UAF sites

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The Returns from Facility Investments

• Facility data are widely used to conduct
  fundamental research in atmospheric sciences
• Facilities have played a key role in both
  undergraduate and graduate education
• Facilities represent strategic sites for
  instrument deployment
• Facility data are used in the design and
  validation of many ground-based and space-based
  instruments
• Ground-based atmospheric science facilities play
  a major role in both the planning and execution
  of every major space science program

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Is UARS able to maintain all its facilities if
some major hardware failure occurs?

• Probably not. Replacement value for any of the
  facilities is at least 15M.
• All facilities will probably need to be replaced
  in 10 to 20 years.
• AMISR technology makes gradual replacement
  feasible.
• Bigger issue is how to phase in new facilities.

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Facility Strategic Planning

• Facilities are completing an integrated plan for
  the next seven years, as recommended in 2003 by
  the facility review panel chaired by Susan Avery.
• The fourth all-facility planning meeting is being
  held at Haystack Observatory in September 2008.
• Part of this meeting will also include
  participation from other UARS investigators with
  facility-type projects to assess the demand for
  expanding the facilities program beyond the
  current scope.

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Table of Contents I. BACKGROUND Introduction Rada
r Techniques for Upper Atmospheric Research
II. FACILITY DESCRIPTIONS The Jicamarca
Radio Observatory The Arecibo Observatory The
Millstone Hill Observatory The Sondrestrom Radar
Facility SuperDARN The Advanced Modular
Incoherent Scatter Radar Facility Management and
Review III. FACILITY CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPACE
SCIENCE Ionospheric Irregularities Lower
Thermosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Topside
Ionosphere Magnetosphere-Ionosphere C oupling at
High Latitudes Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
at Mid and Low Latitudes D-Region, Mesosphere,
Meteors IV. FACILITY CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAJOR
SCIENCE PROGRAMS Space Weather Global
Change Space Missions Radio Science V. FACILITY
STRATEGIES VI. EDUCATION AND OUTREACH VII IMPLE
MENTATION Appendix A History of Incoherent
Scatter Appendix B Other Instrumentation at UAF
Sites Appendix C Planned Upgrades and
Enhancements to Existing Facilities
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An Integrated Approach to Management, Operations
and Science For the National Science
Foundations Upper Atmospheric Facilities
Echo
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Arctic Air
An Integrated Approach to Management, Operations
and Science For the National Science
Foundations Upper Atmospheric Facilities
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An Integrated Approach to Management, Operations
and Science For the National Science
Foundations Upper Atmospheric Facilities
Surface Winds
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UAF Funding Breakdown Total 11.9M
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