iMST16
3-7 June 2024, Potsdam, Germany

EISCAT_3D in the European Arctic Science Landscape

Thomas Ulich (EISCAT Scientific Association); Urban Brändström (Swedish Institute for Space Physics); Njål Gulbrandsen (Tromsø Geophysical Observatory; The Arctic University of Norway); Magnar Johnsen (Tromsø Geophysical Observatory; The Arctic University of Norway); Fred Sigernes (Kjell-Henriksen Observatory); Kirsti Kauristie (Finnish Meteorological Institute); Shin-Ichiro Oyama (Institute of Space-Earth Environmental Research; Nagoya University); Axel Steuwer (EISCAT Scientific Association); and the EISCAT Staff (EISCAT Scientific Association)

Abstract

The European Arctic, in this context referring to Northern Fenno-Scandinavia, is covered by a wealth of instrumentation for observations of the geospace environment. In the very near future, the world's most sophisticated and powerful incoherent scatter radar, EISCAT_3D, will become part of this geoscience landscape. Recently, the institutes with observatory-grade observations in the area have joined efforts in the Nordic Observatory Collaboration. Here we give a brief overview of the resources available for geosciences and discuss future possibilities.