Requests for World Day experiments should follow this outline:
- Descriptive Title.
- Name of person submitting request, principle investigator, with his or
her snail and email addresses and phone numbers.
- Names of other participants, co-investigators, with addresses.
- Name a point person to be contacted for coordinating the details of the
experiments (if different from the one submitting the request).
- Enumerate the key science objectives.
- List required background conditions for solar activity, magnetic activity,
season of the year, phase of the moon, specific dates, if any.
- List which UAFs and which instruments must be included.
- Describe the measurements required to meet the science objectives
by listing the primary and secondary parameters to be measured, the altitude,
azimuth, and elevation ranges
over which the measurements are to be made, and the time resolutions for each
upper atmospheric facility requied by the study.
(Include the preferred radar operating modes for each ISR, if known)
- Describe why simultaneous observations from the radars are
important. In other words, can the same experiment be performed with the
radars working at different times, rather than coordinated through the World
Days?
- Describe why existing data in the CEDAR and/or MADRIGAL data bases are
insufficient for the needs of your project.
- List what existing data in the data bases come closest to meeting your needs.
- Give reasons why current baseline World Days will not suffice.
- List the duties of the participants.
- List any facility personel with whom you have discussed these ideas.
- Describe in more detail the objectives of the study and their relationship
to previous studies, giving references. Including an attachment in lieu of
a paragraph here may be
an appropriate way to spell out these details; e.g., portions of a
proprosal to a funding agency with an indication of the grant status.
Sample World Day Proposal
Title: Solar Cycle and Latitude Dependence of F-Region Electron Temperatures
during Sunrise
Principle Investigator: Wesley E. Swartz, 316 Rhodes Hall, School
of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Email: wes@ece.cornell.edu, Tel: 607-255-7120
Co-Investigators: John Smith and Jane Doe, etc.
Point Person: W. E. Swartz
Key Objectives:
- To measure with good time resolution the electron temperature and density
profiles through sunrise periods as functions of solar activity and
latitude (solar zenith angle)
- To compare the measurements with theoretical calculations of the
electron production, heating, cooling, and recombination
Background Conditions: A range of solar activity (as indicated by
S10.7 or number of sunspots), a range of magnetic activity is ok,
but not required.
UAFs Needed: All
Primary Parameters to Measure: Local vertical profiles of Ne, Te, Ti
through the F-region (120-800 km) with the best time resolution possible
from 2 hours before sunrise until 3 hours after sunrise. No beam swinging
unless a second beam is available as is the case for Millstone Hill,
Arecibo, Jicamarca, and the ESR.
Secondary Parameters to Measure: Ion velocities (esp. vertical component)
Off vertical components only with a second beam, if available.
Need for Simultaneous Data:The idea is to have the same solar conditions
at each radar (except for solar zenith angle) so that variations having
to do with location can be separated from day-to-day solar activity variations.
Existing Data Meeting Objectives: None. Existing data has insufficient
time resolution and
mostly was taken with beam swinging modes to emphasize vector plasma drifts
and spatial variations rather than time dependence of local conditions.
Existing Data Closest to Objectives: Most World Day observations
included measurements of Ne, Te, and Ti, but not as local profiles.
Until recently, Arecibo mostly used 15 degree offset beams, and Jicamarca
often used their Vertical/East-West drift mode for most World Days.
The Faraday/Double-Pulse mode at Jicamarca would suffice.
Relavance of Baseline WD Schedule:There are no days set asside
for high time resolution measurments through sunrise periods.
Participant Duties: PI (Point Person in this case) will coordinate the
experiments to ensure proper modes are used at each UAF and will provide
the photoelectron production and heating calculations for the theortical
comparisons. Jane Doe will facilitate anciliatory data. John Smith
will correllate the ISR data with solar activity fluctuations.
Facility Personel Contacted: None.
Further Details and Background: There have been only a few detailed
comparisons of theoretical modelling of photoelectron heating using
detailed transport codes and none that looked at a wide range of
conditions. Individual or single event studies that relate include
Banks and Nagy, Swartz and Nisbet, Swartz, Aponte et al.
[Your proposal should list the details of your references.]
(A longer description of further details and background would normally
be expected, and may include attachements.)
Sample Version of 2006/3/9