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5.3 Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Solar-Terrestrial Research: Report of a Workshop
Pages 48-50

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... A major goal in solar-terrestrial science now is to unify scientific understanding so as to achieve a more comprehensive computational framework that will enable prediction of the properties of this systemleading to conditions known as space weather that affect Earth and its technological systems. To do this accurately, however, requires an understanding of Earth's global behavior as it exists, rather than as it occurs NOTE: "Executive Summary" reprinted from Distributed Arrays of Small Instruments for Solar-Terrestrial Research: Report of a Workshop, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2006, pp.
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... • Can low-frequency interplanetary scintillations be used to make global determinations of solar wind velocity? Among the major ground-based remote sensing instruments described by workshop participants were the following: • Very-low-frequency and high-frequency receivers and radio telescopes; • High- and medium-power active radars and low-power passive radars; • Ionosondes; • Magnetometers; • Passive and active optical instruments (interferometers, spectrometers, lidars)
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... Although no consensus on priorities was sought or attempted, participants identified the following near-term actions as means to further evaluate the potential of the DASI concept and to prepare for its future development and implementation: • Hold community workshops to address in greater detail the instrumentation, science, and deployment issues associated with DASI. • Identify areas in which existing and planned instrument arrays and clusters can share technology, data distribution architectures, and logistics experience.
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