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A decade of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN): scientific achievements, new techniques and future directions

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The Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) has been operating as an international co-operative organization for over 10 years. The network has now grown so that the fields of view of its 18 radars cover the majority of the northern and southern hemisphere polar ionospheres. SuperDARN has been successful in addressing a wide range of scientific questions concerning processes in the magnetosphere, ionosphere, thermosphere, and mesosphere, as well as general plasma physics questions. We commence this paper with a historical introduction to SuperDARN. Following this, we review the science performed by SuperDARN over the last 10 years covering the areas of ionospheric convection, field-aligned currents, magnetic reconnection, substorms, MHD waves, the neutral atmosphere, and E-region ionospheric irregularities. In addition, we provide an up-to-date description of the current network, as well as the analysis techniques available for use with the data from the radars. We conclude the paper with a discussion of the future of SuperDARN, its expansion, and new science opportunities.

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We are extremely grateful to all the national funding agencies for their continued support of the SuperDARN network and their vision in realising that investment in one radar provides access to global data coverage from multiple radars.

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  1. British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0ET, UK

    G. Chisham, M. P. Freeman & M. Pinnock

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    M. Lester, S. E. Milan, A. Grocott & T. K. Yeoman

  3. UAF Geophysical Institute, 903 Koyukuk Drive, Fairbanks, AK, 99775, USA

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  4. University of Saskatchewan, 116 Science Place, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, S7N 5E2

    K. A. McWilliams & G. J. Sofko

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    J. M. Ruohoniemi & R. A. Greenwald

  6. Department of Physics, La Trobe University, Victoria, 3086, Australia

    P. L. Dyson

  7. Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    T. Kikuchi

  8. School of Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4041, South Africa

    J. P. S. Rash & A. D. M. Walker

  9. National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan

    N. Sato

  10. LPCE/CNRS, 3A, Avenue de la recherche Scientifique, Orleans, 45071, France

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Chisham, G., Lester, M., Milan, S.E. et al. A decade of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN): scientific achievements, new techniques and future directions. Surv Geophys 28, 33–109 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-007-9017-8

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