Collaborative Research: Investigation of Deep Polar Cap Dynamics Using an Autonomous Instrument Network

Motivated by the compelling science in the underexplored polar region, we propose to investigate M-I coupling processes, ionospheric irregularities inside the polar cap and their space weather impacts by establishing a new ground-based network that will be deployed in the Antarctic polar cap region. The goal of this investigation is to establish a spatially extensive ground-based observational record of coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere (M-I) dynamics in the deep polar cap.

This is to be achieved using three new Autonomous Geophysical Observatories (AGOs) along the Jang Bogo – Dome C supply route (deployment and maintenance paid for by Korea Polar Research Institute – KOPRI).