Review of Environmental Monitoring by Means of Radio Waves in the Polar Regions: From Atmosphere to Geospace

Journal
SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS
Date Issued
2022
Author(s)
Lucilla Alfonsi
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Nicolas Bergeot
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Pierre Cilliers
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Giorgiana De Franceschi
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Lisa Baddeley
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Emilia Correia
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Domenico Di Mauro
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Carl-Fredrik Enell
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Mark Engebretson
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Reza Ghoddousi-Fard
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Ingemar Häggström
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Young-bae Ham
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Georg Heygster
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Geonhwa Jee
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Antti Kero
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Michael Jurgen Kosch
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Hyuck Jin Kwon
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Changsup Lee
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Liliana Macotela
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Maria Federica Marcucci
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Wojciech Miloch
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Yu Morton
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Takahiro Naoi
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Noora Partamies
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Boyan
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Eric Pottiaux
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Paul Prikryl
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Shreedevi P R
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Rikard Slapak
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Luca SPOGLI
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Judy Stephenson
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Arantxa M. Triana Gómez
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Oleg A. Troshichev
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Roeland Van Malderen
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J Weygand
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Shasha Zou
DOI
Abstract
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.
Volume
43
Issue
6
Start page
1609
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Issn Identifier
0169-3298
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open.access
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