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In 1982 a new radar auroral backscatter system, SABRE (Sweden and Britain Radar Experiment), commenced operation in northern Europe. Observations with this ground-based system allow estimates to be made of the electric fields in the auroral E-region. As an electric field probe, the coherent radar technique is unique in that measurements are made over a large area (∼200,000 km2) with good spatial resolution (20 × 20 km2) and with a temporal resolution of typically 20 s. The system field of view covers an L-value range 4.3–5.8. This region in the magnetosphere–ionosphere system is now accessible for the first time for detailed electric field studies. We present here observations of two pulsation events.
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Nielsen, E., Güttler, W., Thomas, E. et al. A new radar auroral backscatter experiment. Nature 304, 712–714 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/304712a0
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