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Abstract:
The dataset are the raw data files from the Svalbard SuperDARN radar (data from other SuperDARN radars are also stored at this repository but this collection refers specifically to the Svalbard SuperDARN radar only). The data freely available and are archived in two open-access repositories (a username and password are required to access the system). The data repository at the British Antarctic Survey is used here. The SuperDARN community maintains two software packages to process and analyse the raw data : i) Radar Software Toolkit (RST), the primary SuperDARN data analysis software, ii) pyDARN, a python library for SuperDARN data visualisation
These open source packages are maintained and distributed by an international team of scientists, engineers and software developers.
The final (post processed) datafiles will contain line-of-sight doppler velocity, backscattered power and spectral width along the 16 pointing directions of the Svalbard SuperDARN radar at an altitude of 250km. The data coverage is of an area to the North East of Svalbard, across the polar cap, extending towards Alaska.