Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Spring 2023 Meeting of the APS New England Section
Volume 68, Number 4
Friday–Saturday, March 17–18, 2023; Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Session G00: Poster Session
6:00 PM,
Friday, March 17, 2023
Amherst College
Room: Lipton Lecture Room E110
Abstract: G00.00001 : Ground-based Antarctic measurements to support heliophysics research
Presenter:
Thomas Y. Chen
(Columbia University)
Author:
Thomas Y. Chen
(Columbia University)
Regarding future needs, expanding the GNSS-TEC observations, installing auroral imagers, and expanding the ground network of magnetometers are important goals. Expanding the geographical distribution of neutron monitors would enable routine determination of anisotropic effects of radiation storms on the atmosphere. This is important to consider because the National Space Weather Program has become a topic of considerable importance in Congress, and is coordinated within the White House. Measurements and the development of models to predict space weather and the impacts on the technologies upon which we depend (power distribution, communication, navigation etc.) have risen to a national security issue that some would consider to be nearly as important as climate change. Noting the importance of Antarctic observing programs presently supported by the core programs to this enterprise adds importance to improving the infrastructure and logistical capability to maintain the measurement programs that contribute to the National Space Weather Program and to consider expansion of those programs.
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