The Sondrestrom Research Facility is now closed and not collecting new data; however, all historical data is available and now being maintained by the AMISR facility. Please contact the AMISR team amisr.com/amisr/requests for assistance accessing and interpreting data.

Sondrestrom ceased operations in May 2018. The information on this website has not been updated since May 2018.




•  Ion & neutral thin layers
•  E-region electrodynamics
•  Noctilucent clouds
•  Multispectral imaging
•  Cross-scale MI coupling
•  F-region aurora
•  Ion upflow along the nightside polar cap boundary
•  Ionospheric signatures of magnetospheric boundaries
•  ISR studies of conductance
•  Auroral radio emissions
•  Sunlit auroral emissions optical measurements




• Developed an event-driven radar operations protocol for CME events
• Tests geoeffectiveness of solar storms
• Study Ionosphere-Magnetosphere coupling
• Analyze, display and archive radar data in real time for SPARC
• Electronic workshop for solar-terrestrial data during storm events

• Designated as a primary field site within the Network for Detection of Stratospheric Change (NDSC)
  
– Lidar instruments
  
– DMI instrumentation
• DMI stratospheric ozone monitoring and Lidar polar stratospheric cloud observations
• Lidar middle atmosphere temperature
• Lidar noctilucent cloud detections
• Greenland ice cap mass balance determined by GPS and gravity measurements

• ISTP mission, radar operations and M-I science
• FAST mission, radar operations and auroral science
• TIMED mission, radar operations and lower ITM science
• GEC mission, planning based on radar results of ionospheric electrodynamics
• ESA CLUSTER mission, radar operations and cusp science
• DMI / DSRI Oersted mission, radar operations and electrodynamics science
• DMSP, radar operations for calibration and validation
• GFZ CHAMP mission, radar operations and cusp science
• IT solution to difficulties in retrieving, controlling and polling instruments at remote field sites - Sondrestrom facility testbed - because of low or unreliable Internet connections
• Adaptable and scaleable IT architecture enabling more field sites and instruments
• Broadened utility of transport system leading to new applications, such as web data mining for site’s space weather alert protocol
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