Project -
NORSTAR Science Thrust -
Energy and mass transport and scaling in space plasmas.
- magnetospheric dynamics
- auroral arcs
- energy deposition in the ionosphere
- upper atmospheric physics
Strategic
Benefits
- training of HQP - (4-5 MSc/PhD
students and 2-3 PDFs on an ongoing basis)
- two-dimensional maps of the characteristic energies
and fluxes of electrons and the energy flux of protons (the latter has yet to
be demonstrated).
- collaborative opportunities (Cluster, CANOPUS,
IMAGE, FAST, Geotail, SuperDARN, MIRACLE, DMSP, GOES, MARIA, MPA, CDAM)
Instrumentation
- 6 Imagers (four in place, two to be decommissioned, four new to be aquired)
- 4 Mags (to be acquired with new ASIs - "NORSTAR West"
- Computational resources
Financial
Resources (in place)
- 120 k / year (NSERC CRO for three
years)
- 75 k / year (CANOPUS funding for
POLARIS)
Financial
Resources (additional)
- 150 k / year (operations of additional
instrumentaion)
- 480 k (acquire 4 new imagers)
- 80 k (acquire 4 new magnetometers)
- 200 k (install instruments at four
new sites)
Schedule
- 2 ASIs 2001
- 1 ASI 2002
- 1 ASI 2003
- 4 mags 2002/2003
