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The Remote Equatorial Nighttime Observatory of Ionospheric Regions Project and the International Heliospherical Year |
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| Authors: | Jonathan J. Makela John W. Meriwether Jose P. Lima Ethan S. Miller Shaun J. Armstrong |
| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA 3. Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia e Geofísica, Praia, Republica de Cabo Verde |
| Abstract: | We describe a new suite of instruments planned for deployment to Cape Verde as part of the International Heliospherical Year. The Remote Equatorial Nighttime Observatory of Ionospheric Regions (RENOIR) project consists of a bistatic Fabry–Perot interferometer system, an all-sky imaging system, a dual-frequency Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, and an array of single-frequency GPS scintillation monitors. This instrumentation will allow for studying the low-latitude thermosphere/ionosphere (TI) system in great detail. Investigations to be conducted using this instrumentation while in Cape Verde include studying equatorial irregularity processes, the effects of neutral winds and gravity waves on irregularity development, the midnight temperature maximum, and ion-neutral coupling in the nighttime TI system. Initial observations from the RENOIR instrumentation during pre-deployment testing at the Urbana Atmospheric Observatory are presented, as is the deployment scenario for the project in Cape Verde. |
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