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Originally posted by zorgon
From the horses mouth NOAA is using OTHR for CLIMATE CONTROL
Originally posted by Essan
No, they use it to monitor climate change
Originally posted by zorgon
So what did they do with those antennas in your area? I find lots of references but can't even find and old history picture
Originally posted by JackWestJr
Keep chattering away, you still can't do anything about it.
Originally posted by Phage
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In FY 2008: Continue coupling of radiation belt model to global geospace environment models to increase accuracy and lead time. Validate models for ionospheric penetration by very low frequency (VLF) electromagnetic waves and their injection into the magnetosphere....
In FY 2009: Continue measurement of interplanetary magnetic fields using wide-field radio array. Complete Spiral 1 magnetic reconnection model to study solar flare initiation and energy storage. Continue program to test and
evaluate empirical flare prediction models based on synoptic data from Air Force and national observatory assets. Complete coupling of radiation belt model to global geospace environment models to increase accuracy and lead time. Utilize three-dimensional global radiation belt diffusion models to simulate ultimate global effect of wave-particle interactions from VLF electromagnetic wave power injected in narrow altitude slices of radiation belts. Validate models for virtual VLF electromagnetic wave generation in the ionosphere and global transport and power
distribution.
In FY 2008: Use satellite tracking test bed and Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing tracking telescopes to demonstrate Space Situational Awareness (SSA) capability of HT sensors and validate the utility of this
technique to obtain operational and health status of resident space objects
In FY 2007: Performed metric tests of C/NOFS scintillation forecasting system. Integrated C/NOFS results into ionospheric specification and forecasting algorithms and models for enhanced military utility of scintillation warning system. Investigated coupled solar-magnetospheric-ionospheric-thermospheric models to improve forecast lead times for radar operations, and communications/navigation outages. Developed portable ionospheric sensor suite for measuring total electron content and communications/navigation scintillation
In FY 2008: Expand high-latitude data collection to initiate a high-latitude scintillation warning system. Investigate the impact of convection of scintillations to higher latitudes on Ultra High Frequency communication and Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation systems. Investigate HF induced artificial scintillation generation using the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). Develop portable ionospheric sensor suite for
measuring total electron content and communications/navigation scintillation. Initiate space radar data collection for ionosphere compensation study. Develop scintillation mitigation technology by using metal-oxide space cloud. Develop techniques of analyzing GPS radio occultation data acquired by C/NOFS and Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC) satellites Begin incorporation of Kalman filter ionospheric model into forecast models and ionospheric warfighter impact products. Conduct statistical analysis of
neutral density to improve accuracy of empirical neutral density models for specifying and forecasting neutral density during geomagnetic storms. Implement algorithm to assess impacts of penetration electric fields on generation of equatorial irregularities.
In FY 2009: Investigate solar activity on enhancement of L-band scintillations to assess the support of the scintillation database and tools to military communication and navigation systems. Measure total electron content and scintillations over the African subcontinent for better defining the equatorial scintillation and GPS error environment in the middle-eastern region. Demonstrate scintillation mitigation technology using metal-oxide space cloud. Deliver ionospheric compensation technique with wide-band radio-frequency waves. Improve modeling techniques for specifying high temporal resolution of neutral density and satellite drag to achieve predictive space situation awareness. Improve empirical and neutral density model based on Atmospheric Density Specification experiment data and develop physics-based model of the neutral composition, wind, and density. Continue transition of physics-based 3-D model of equatorial plasma bubbles into warfighter products and transition of ionospheric Kalman filter operational models into equatorial models.
MAJOR THRUST: Develop High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program site transmitting and diagnostic
instrument infrastructure.
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In FY 2007: Validated performance of 3.6 megawatt transmitting array in Extremely Low Frequency/Very Low Frequency (ELF/VLF) wave generation and optical emissions research programs.
In FY 2008: Conduct experimental research with the 3.6 megawatt transmitting array to develop techniques to increase the efficiency of ELF/VLF wave generated in space and initiate research to characterize their interactions with charged particles in the earth's radiation belts.
In FY 2009: Continue research to characterize wave-particle interactions and wave amplification effects in space and their potential application to mitigate charged particle effects on space systems and operations.
MAJOR THRUST: Develop basic seismic technologies to support national requirements for monitoring nuclear explosions with special focus on regional distances less than 2,000 kilometers from the sensors. 7.099 6.777 6.784
In FY 2007: Updated seismic codes for operational use. Developed hypothesis test results into potential discrimination and yield estimation techniques, while addressing unresolved hypothesis issues for seismic energy
partition, magnitudes, and source physics. Incorporated seismic energy partition effects into implications for local and regional seismic wave propagation. Developed efforts on seismic calibration; seismic detection, location, and discrimination; and observational studies of seismic wave propagation, including propagation in Eurasia. Assessed
future directions based on results obtained so far.
4 Outline of possible new (non-traditional) uses of the new radar
The objective of this item is to evaluate the feasibility of different “unusual” applications of the new radar based on the results of the literature search. The applications and brief preliminary conclusions are as follows:
• Artificial ionospheric targets. Possibly new applications of ionospheric releases of small particles fabricated using modern nanotechnology methods that may induce very large radar cross-sections to ISR in the ionospheric environment.
Experiments involving artificial ionospheric injections of different materials were conducted in the 1980’s. For example, Millstone Hill 440-MHz ISR was used to observe the spatial and temporal development of heavy negative ion plasma clouds created during four active chemical release experiments: the Ionospheric Modification Study (IMS) in 1983, the Space-Plasma Negative Ion Experiments (SPINEX 1 and 2) in 1984 and 1986, and NICARE 1 in 1989 (Sultan et al., 1992). The METAL campaign (Kirkwood and Vonzahn, 1993) was a multi-instrument campaign conducted in 1991 that was designed to investigate the relationship between neutral and ionized metallic layers in the high-latitude lower ionosphere. Measurements included electron density profiles and electric fields from the EISCAT UHF radar, ionosonde measurements of E(s) layers, neutral Fe profiles from lidar, rocket observations of winds (by chaff releases), and measurements of plasma density and ion composition (by mass spectrometer). The Arecibo incoherent scatter radar was used to observe enhanced ion acoustic and Langmuir wave turbulence after the release of 30 kg of CF3Br into the F region at 285 km (Bernhardt et al., 1995). In July 1992, as part of the NASA Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) El Coqui rocket campaign, the AA 2 experiment was performed. Its purpose was to study the interaction between a powerful radio wave and a high ion mass (Ba+) ''collisionless'' plasma. Approximately 35 kg of Ba were explosively released near the center of the Arecibo high-frequency heater beam at 253 km altitude (Djuth et al., 1995). Barium cloud releases were studied by Sridharan et al., 1997. Among other materials used for active experiments the following can be mentioned: metallic needles (Goldstein et al., 1998), CO2 (released near Millstone Hill ISR, Semeter et al., 1996), trimethyl aluminum (Roper, 1996).