SPEAR, CUTLASS and the ESR

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SPEAR, CUTLASS and the ESR
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• The most technologically advanced of the Global
  SuperDARN network of radars
• Has generated significant contract income (gt500k
  Japan, Australia), with further contracts under
  negotiation with Japan and China)
• Publications 2000-2003 40 per annum . 50 of
  these are UK first author, and they constitute
  50 of publications from the 16 radar SuperDARN
  network).
• Field-of-view centred over the ESR, SPEAR and
  SIF. Provides vector electric field as vital
  context for all the instruments, and is the prime
  diagnostic for wave phenomena generated by spear

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• Summary of science goals over next 5 years

• Nonlinear plasma physics
• Wave-wave interactions
• Artificial aurora
• Magnetospheric/Ionospheric radar
• Wave injection
• particle acceleration mechanisms,
• magnetic linkage of ground/space observations,
• magnetospheric morphology
• Artifical backscatter
• wave-particle interactions
• Electrodynamics of small scale structures
• Global electrodynamics for input to global models