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TY - JOUR
T1 - Review of Environmental Monitoring by Means of Radio Waves in the Polar Regions
T2 - From Atmosphere to Geospace
AU - Alfonsi, Lucilla
AU - Bergeot, Nicolas
AU - Cilliers, Pierre J.
AU - De Franceschi, Giorgiana
AU - Baddeley, Lisa
AU - Correia, Emilia
AU - Di Mauro, Domenico
AU - Enell, Carl-Fredrik
AU - Engebretson, Mark
AU - Ghoddousi-Fard, Reza
AU - Häggström, Ingemar
AU - Ham, Young-bae
AU - Heygster, Georg
AU - Jee, Geonhwa
AU - Kero, Antti
AU - Kosch, Michael
AU - Kwon, Hyuck-Jin
AU - Lee, Changsup
AU - Lotz, Stefan
AU - Macotela, Liliana
AU - Marcucci, Maria Federica
AU - Miloch, Wojciech J.
AU - Morton, Y. Jade
AU - Naoi, Takahiro
AU - Negusini, Monia
AU - Partamies, Noora
AU - Petkov, Boyan H.
AU - Pottiaux, Eric
AU - Prikryl, Paul
AU - Shreedevi, P. R.
AU - Slapak, Rikard
AU - Spogli, Luca
AU - Stephenson, Judy
AU - Triana-Gómez, Arantxa M.
AU - Troshichev, Oleg A.
AU - Van Malderen, Roeland
AU - Weygand, James M.
AU - Zou, Shasha
PY - 2022/12/31
Y1 - 2022/12/31
N2 - The Antarctic and Arctic regions are Earth's open windows to outer space. They provide unique opportunities for investigating the troposphere–thermosphere–ionosphere–plasmasphere system at high latitudes, which is not as well understood as the mid- and low-latitude regions mainly due to the paucity of experimental observations. In addition, different neutral and ionised atmospheric layers at high latitudes are much more variable compared to lower latitudes, and their variability is due to mechanisms not yet fully understood. Fortunately, in this new millennium the observing infrastructure in Antarctica and the Arctic has been growing, thus providing scientists with new opportunities to advance our knowledge on the polar atmosphere and geospace. This review shows that it is of paramount importance to perform integrated, multi-disciplinary research, making use of long-term multi-instrument observations combined with ad hoc measurement campaigns to improve our capability of investigating atmospheric dynamics in the polar regions from the troposphere up to the plasmasphere, as well as the coupling between atmospheric layers. Starting from the state of the art of understanding the polar atmosphere, our survey outlines the roadmap for enhancing scientific investigation of its physical mechanisms and dynamics through the full exploitation of the available infrastructures for radio-based environmental monitoring.
AB - The Antarctic and Arctic regions are Earth's open windows to outer space. They provide unique opportunities for investigating the troposphere–thermosphere–ionosphere–plasmasphere system at high latitudes, which is not as well understood as the mid- and low-latitude regions mainly due to the paucity of experimental observations. In addition, different neutral and ionised atmospheric layers at high latitudes are much more variable compared to lower latitudes, and their variability is due to mechanisms not yet fully understood. Fortunately, in this new millennium the observing infrastructure in Antarctica and the Arctic has been growing, thus providing scientists with new opportunities to advance our knowledge on the polar atmosphere and geospace. This review shows that it is of paramount importance to perform integrated, multi-disciplinary research, making use of long-term multi-instrument observations combined with ad hoc measurement campaigns to improve our capability of investigating atmospheric dynamics in the polar regions from the troposphere up to the plasmasphere, as well as the coupling between atmospheric layers. Starting from the state of the art of understanding the polar atmosphere, our survey outlines the roadmap for enhancing scientific investigation of its physical mechanisms and dynamics through the full exploitation of the available infrastructures for radio-based environmental monitoring.
KW - Geochemistry and Petrology
KW - Geophysics
U2 - 10.1007/s10712-022-09734-z
DO - 10.1007/s10712-022-09734-z
M3 - Review article
VL - 43
SP - 1609
EP - 1698
JO - Surveys in Geophysics
JF - Surveys in Geophysics
SN - 0169-3298
IS - 6
ER -