Getting Data

The SuperDARN Radars operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and produce a large volume of data. The data is divided into common, special, and discretionary time periods.

Common time data consists of measurements taken when all of the radars are being operated in the same mode. Special time data consists of measurements taken when the radars are being operated in a different mode. Discretionary time data consists of measurements taken when the radars are operating independently from one another.

The SuperDARN community is keen to encourage collaboration with others and to provide access to the data set.

SuperDARN common time data should be obtained from the Principal Investigator in your country. If you are not from a participating SuperDARN country, contact the Principal Investigator(s) of the radar data in which you are interested. For data taken by a specific radar during discretionary time, contact the appropriate PI for that radar.


SuperDARN Principal Investigators

Name: Elsayed Talaat
Affiliation: JHU/APL
Email Address: elsayed.talaat@jhuapl.edu
Name: J. Michael Ruohoniemi
Affiliation: Virginia Tech.
Email Address: mikeruo@vt.edu
Name: George J. Sofko
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Email Address: george.sofko@usask.ca
Name: Jean-Pierre St. Maurice
Affiliation: University of Saskatchewan
Email Address: jp.stmaurice@usask.ca
Name: Aurélie Marchaudon
Affiliation: CNRS
Email Address: aurelie.marchaudon@cnrs-orleans.fr
Name: William Bristow
Affiliation: University of Alaska
Email Address: bill.bristow@gi.alaska.edu
Name: Mark Lester
Affiliation: Leicester University
Email Address: mle@ion.le.ac.uk
Name: Simon Shepherd
Affiliation: Dartmouth College
Email Address: simon@thayer.dartmouth.edu
Name: Tsutomu Nagatsuma
Affiliation: NICT
Email Address: tnagatsu@nict.go.jp
Name: Mervyn Freeman
Affiliation: British Antarctic Survey
Email Address: mpf@bas.ac.uk
Name: Steve Milan
Affiliation: University of Leicester
Email Address: ets@ion.le.ac.uk
Name: Natsuo Sato
Affiliation: NIPR
Email Address: nsato@nipr.ac.jp
Name: Jon Rash
Affiliation: University of KwaZulu-Natal
Email Address: jpsrash@gmail.com
Name: Peter Dyson
Affiliation: La Trobe University
Email Address: p.dyson@latrobe.edu.au
Name:John Devlin
Affiliation: La Trobe University
Email Address: J.Devlin@latrobe.edu.au
Name: Nozomu Nishitani
Affiliation: Nagoya University
Email Address: nisitani@stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Name: Hongqiao Hu
Affiliation: Polar Research Institute of China
Email Address: hhq@pric.gov.cn


The US SuperDARN Effort is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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