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Campaign Information for request: 019a4f7d-a840-7bb2-aff1-6af2c8920246

Campaign identification
Request ID:	019a4f7d-a840-7bb2-aff1-6af2c8920246
Submitted by:	Andrew Kavanagh

Common information

Contact:	Andrew Kavanagh
Campaign name:	DRIIVE-FINESSE
Description:
Notes	This campaign supports the DRIIVE and FINESSE projects. It uses time allocated to three UK experiments: RADII, DRIIVE & FINESSE 6 day of operation with both radars The UK is providing 96 hours, Norway had pledged 6 hours and Sweden has pledged 12 hours This gives 114 hours in total that should be split with the UHF running 9 hours from 19 UT and the VHF running 10 hours from 19 UT. Both the VHF and UHF will be used (as well as the Dynasonde). The VHF will be in vertical mode using manda to extract high reoslution D and E region measurements The UHF will operate a scan mode, similar to ip2, but including a dwell over Skibotn (if possible). This needs further discussion to set properly. A pulse code that also gives good E region (and D from power profile if possible) is desirable, this is likely beata. the primary aims of the experiment are i) to extract estimates of the precipitation energy and the Joule heating rate in concert with optics and HF radar ii) to probe auroral arcs in conjunction with high resolution optics iii) identify small scale variability using the spacing of the UHF and VHF radar beams to give an indication of scale changes. iv) identify wave structures in the data that can be linked to HF radar data and middle and ower atmosphere observations v) to compare and contrast variability with the output of simulations from WACCM-D and WACCM-X 2025-11-05 13:01 UTC (Andrew Kavanagh): 2025-11-05 14:42 UTC (Maria Mihalikova): 2025-11-05 15:35 UTC (Thomas Ulich): 2025-11-10 10:04 UTC (Andrew Kavanagh): 2025-11-10 10:19 UTC (Maria Mihalikova): 2025-12-08 13:27 UTC (Anders Tjulin): VHF: runexp /kst/exp/manda/manda lm zenith UK UHF: runexp beata/beata lm uk/embla UK 250
Responsible at EISCAT:	EISCAT Staff
Embargo flag:	A N - No Embargo time (0 years) Data is accessible right away by all EISCAT Associates and Affiliates A - Blue Book Embargo time (1 year) to the Associate/Affiliate member B - Blue-Book Embargo time (1 year) to the primary investigator S - Special Embargo time for primary investigator requested
Keywords:	Incoherent scatter Ionosphere - D region Ionosphere - E region Optical instruments Radar

Originally requested time sources:			UK(96);
Allocations presently in the database:
Time source:	NO	Hours to use:	6.0
Time source:	SE	Hours to use:	12.0
Time source:	UK	Hours to use:	96.0

Instruments, Time and Experiments requested

	Instrument	Date	Start time (UTC)	Observation period (hours)	Experiment	Antenna mode	Experiment details	Status
	UHF	2025-12-14	19:00	9.0	beata	other	beata to be disscussed, scan likely to be ip2 variant	1
	VHF	2025-12-14	19:00	10.0	manda	zenith		1
	UHF	2025-12-15	19:00	9.0	beata	other	beata to be disscussed, scan likely to be ip2 variant	2
	VHF	2025-12-15	19:00	10.0	manda	zenith		2
	UHF	2025-12-16	19:00	9.0	beata	other	beata to be disscussed, scan likely to be ip2 variant	1
	VHF	2025-12-16	19:00	10.0	manda	zenith		1
	UHF	2025-12-17	19:00	9.0	beata	other	beata to be disscussed, scan likely to be ip2 variant	2
	VHF	2025-12-17	19:00	10.0	manda	zenith		2
	UHF	2025-12-18	19:00	9.0	beata	other	beata to be disscussed, scan likely to be ip2 variant	1
	VHF	2025-12-18	19:00	10.0	manda	zenith		1
	UHF	2025-12-19	19:00	9.0	beata	other	beata to be disscussed, scan likely to be ip2 variant	1
	VHF	2025-12-19	19:00	10.0	manda	zenith		1