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Chinese Antarctic Magnetometer Chain at the Cusp Latitude

Yonghua, Liu and Hongqiao, Hu and Huigen, Yang and Beichen, Zhang and Bo, Sun and Fuhai, Wei and Yang, Liu and Jianjun, Liu and Rui, Wang and Zhuotian, Chen and Zejun, Hu and Desheng, Han and Guitao, Shi and Zhengyi, Hu and Tao, Wang and Chunlei, An and Rose, Mike (2016) Chinese Antarctic Magnetometer Chain at the Cusp Latitude. Advances in Polar Science, 17 (2). pp. 102-106.

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Abstract

A Chinese Antarctic Magnetometer (CAM) chain from Zhongshan Station (ZHS) to Dome-A (DMA) has been established since February 2009. A regular magnetometer is operated at ZHS, and four low power magnetometers are operated along the interior route from ZHS to DMA in the cusp latitude, extending over a distance of 1260 km. These stations fill an important void in the Antarctic magnetometer network. Furthermore, the CAM chain is magnetically conjugated with the Arctic region reaching from the Svalbard archipelago to Daneborg, on the east coast of Greenland. Conjugate measurements using the Arctic and Antarctic magnetometers provide excellent opportunities to investigate phenomena related to the coupling of the solar wind to the magnetosphere and ionosphere, such as magnetic impulse events, flux transfer events, traveling convection vortices and ultra-low frequency waves.

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    Uncontrolled Keywords: Magnetometers, magnetic perturbation, cusp latitude, conjugate
    Subjects: Natural Environment > Terrestrial
    Organizations: Unspecified
    Date Deposited: 02 Nov 2023 11:54
    URI: http://library.arcticportal.org/id/eprint/2599

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