Collaborative Research: DASI Track 1--Personal Space Weather Station

合作研究：DASI Track 1——个人空间气象站

• 批准号: 1932972
• 负责人: Travis Atkison
• 金额: $ 40.28万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1932972&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; DASI; Track; Personal

This Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments (DASI) project will support the development of a network of Personal Space Weather Stations (PSWS). The PSWS is a ground-based, modular, multi-instrument system capable of remote sensing the geospace system. This project is to develop a protoype of an integrated PSWSS which will initially consist of a radio receiver instrument, a ground magnetometer, and a central computer. The modular nature of the system will allow for the later addition of new instruments. This prototype is being developed in collaboration between multiple universities and the ham radio community through the Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) collective and the TAPR amateur radio engineering organization, who would eventually host instruments at their local sites. A primary goal of the PSWS project is to make it affordable to individuals. In this way, the PSWS network of instruments is easily expandable and can grow organically by engaging the general public. At the same time, stations can also be sited and managed by professional institutions, guaranteeing required coverage. The goal of the PSWS is to collect data on variety of phenomena - Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances and ionospheric absorption events, geomagnetic storms and substorms, magnetospheric ultra low frequency (ULF) pulsations, and geomagnetically-induced currents (GICs). TIDs exist over such large spatial scales that it is currently impossible to track them from source to dissipation. There is a significant lack of data on local effects of geomagnetic storms as well. The PSWS addresses this through the development of instrumentation that can easily be deployed internationally.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该分布式小型仪器阵列（DASI）项目将支持个人空间气象站（PSWS）网络的开发。 PSWS 是一种地面模块化多仪器系统，能够遥感地球空间系统。该项目旨在开发集成 PSWSS 的原型，该原型最初由无线电接收仪器、地面磁力计和中央计算机组成。该系统的模块化特性将允许以后添加新仪器。该原型是多所大学和业余无线电界通过业余无线电科学公民调查 (HamSCI) 集体和 TAPR 业余无线电工程组织合作开发的，最终将在当地站点托管仪器。 PSWS 项目的主要目标是让个人负担得起。通过这种方式，PSWS 工具网络可以轻松扩展，并且可以通过公众参与来有机增长。同时，站点也可以由专业机构进行布站和管理，保证覆盖范围。 PSWS 的目标是收集各种现象的数据 - 移动电离层扰动和电离层吸收事件、地磁风暴和亚暴、磁层超低频 (ULF) 脉动和地磁感应电流 (GIC)。 TID 存在于如此大的空间尺度上，目前不可能追踪它们从源头到消散的过程。关于地磁风暴局部影响的数据也严重缺乏。 PSWS 通过开发易于在国际上部署的仪器来解决这个问题。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

High‐Frequency Communications Response to Solar Activity in September 2017 as Observed by Amateur Radio Networks

业余无线电网络观测到的 2017 年 9 月太阳活动高频通信响应

• DOI: 10.1029/2018sw002008
• 发表时间: 2019-01
• 期刊: Space Weather
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Frissell, Nathaniel A.;Vega, Joshua S.;Markowitz, Evan;Gerrard, Andrew J.;Engelke, William D.;Erickson, Philip J.;Miller, Ethan S.;Luetzelschwab, R. Carl;Bortnik, Jacob
• 通讯作者: Bortnik, Jacob