Physics
Scientific paper
May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agusmsa42b..01m&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2002, abstract #SA42B-01
Physics
2471 Plasma Waves And Instabilities, 2415 Equatorial Ionosphere, 2443 Midlatitude Ionosphere
Scientific paper
A new set of optical and GPS instruments have been set up at the Maui Space Surveillance Site on top of the Haleakala Volcano on the island of Maui, HI. This location is ideally situated for observing the vertical structure of the equatorial ionosphere, which electrodynamically maps along the magnetic field lines to the region above Maui. The instruments consist of an all-sky imager, a narrow-field imager, a dual-frequency GPS receiver, and a GPS scintillation monitor. Since their installation at the site in late 2001, these instruments have successfully observed many equatorial spread-f (ESF) events and have shown the effects of ESF on the GPS system. One particularly intense event on February 16-17, 2002 showed plumes that extended vertically to over 1600 km over the equator and caused intense scintillations along the look-direction to over seven GPS satellites, some of which were well to the north of Hawaii.
Kelley Michael C.
Ledvina Brent M.
Loughmiller Pamela J.
Makela Jarmo
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