Data collection on these Incoherent Scatter Coordinated Observation Days is to start no later than 1300 UT on the indicated day and stop not before 2000 UT the ending day. That means that an experiment scheduled for 1 day, actually runs for minimum 31 hours. Depending on local setups, it is recommended to extend the runs around the core hours to be sure to have the systems up at full power during the selected periods.
In the following table, columns 1 and 2 give the UT start dates of the experiments, column 3 lists the lengths of the experiments, column 4 shows the dates of new moon, and column 5 lists the experiment titles. See special notes associated with each World Day period.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Real-Time Data Links (when available) |
||||||
| Jicamarca | Arecibo | Millstone Hill | ||||
| Sondrestrom | PFISR | RISR-N | ||||
| EISCAT | Kharkov | Irkutsk | ||||
| MU | SuperDARN | |||||
Send comments, questions and proposals for the World Day schedule to Ian McCrea and/or Emma Spanswick
Establishing “World Day” schedules for coordinating the operations of the incoherent scatter radars around the world is one of the activities of the Incoherent Scatter Working Group (ISWG) of Commission G of URSI. These schedules are published yearly as part of the International Geophysical Calendar. Here are some of the facts about world days: