CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC IONOSPHERIC NETWORK

The Canadian High Arctic Ionospheric Network (CHAIN) was created in response to the fundamental need for a greater understanding of planetary environments that are affected by short and long term variability of solar output. The Sun-Earth system is a vast coupled system where many physical processes take place, with solar variability driving the terrestrial and space environments. A complete understanding of this complex system requires knowledge about the individual physical processes taking place in the system and in turn necessitates observations. Through the construction and operation of CHAIN, we seek to understand the individual physical processes necessary for the fundamental understanding of the solar-terrestrial coupling and its influence on our planetary environment... CHAIN is a distributed array of ground-based radio instruments located in the Canadian High Arctic. The CHAIN instruments are 25 high data-rate GNSS Ionospheric Scintillation and Total electron content..