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Physics Concepts for Beginners

Waves

What are waves, and what different types of waves are there? Read time: 5 min

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Atoms, Molecules and Ions

The building blocks of everything in the universe. Read time: 10 min

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Electricity and Magnetism

This short tutorial covers the basics you need to know for later topics. Read time: 5 min

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Radio and Radars

Radio for Beginners

This topic covers an introduction to the EM spectrum, and common properties of waves. Read time: 11 min

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What is Radar?

This topic covers the history of radar for communications and science. Read time: 7 min

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Building Radars

This topic covers basic components of a radar and how they work. Read time: 10 min

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SuperDARN Radars

SuperDARN Radar Hardware

This topic covers how hardware in SuperDARN radars transmit and receive signals. Read Time: 11 min

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Probing the Ionosphere

This topic covers how the transmitted radio waves interact with the ionosphere, to send back signals. Read time: 13 min

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From Radio Waves to Data

In this topic, we cover how the radio wave is made into scientific data you can find on our website. Read time: 20 min

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The Ionosphere

Earth's Ionosphere

In this topic, we cover the basics of Earth's ionosphere, it's constituents and how it's formed. Read time: 10 min

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Earth's Atmosphere

In this topic, we discuss Earth's atmosphere in relation to the ionosphere and it's basic nature. Read Time: 5 min

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Space Weather

Earth's Magnetosphere

In this topic, we cover the Earth's magnetopshere, what it is and how it helps protect us. Read time: 13 min

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The Aurora Borealis

In this topic, we discuss what causes the Aurora and how you can see it. Read time: 9 min

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Space Weather Impacts

In this topic, we cover the impacts that space weather can have on our daily lives, and how we can protect from it. Read time: 18 min

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Plasma and Space Physics

An Intro to Plasma

This introductory tutorial covers the basics of plasma physics. Read time: 15 min

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Earth's Plasma Environment

This topic covers the plasma environment around Earth. Read time: 10 min

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Beyond Earth

This topic briefly covers the different plasma regimes of our solar system, and how they differ from Earth. Read Time: 8 mins

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The Sun and Solar Wind

The Sun

In this topic, we cover the basics about our Sun. Read time: 11 mins

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Solar Wind

In this topic, we cover the basics of the solar wind and what it means for us on Earth. Read time: 6 mins

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Project Borealis

What is it and what does it do?

This topic gives a brief overview of what Borealis is, and why it was made. Read time: 5 mins

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ICEBEAR

What is ICEBEAR?

This topic gives a brief overview of what ICEBEAR is and how we collaborate with it. Read time: 5 mins

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Online Learning Tools and Resources

Presentation Video Download Links:
No Maths Space Physics Presentation by Dr. Carley Martin

This No Maths Space Physics presentation was given to new engineers joining the SuperDARN Canada Group in 2021. It contains an overview of Space Physics and how it relates to SuperDARN operations.


Presentation Slides:
FITACF Tutorial Presentation Slides by Prof. Kathryn McWilliams

This presentation was given as a tutorial to new SuperDARN members during the SuperDARN Workshop in Finland in 2003. It outlines the basis of autocorrelation functions and pulse sequences.

Clyde River Radar: What is it for? by Dr. Pasha Ponomarenko
ᑲᖏᖅᑐᒑᐱᒻᒥᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᐅᑎᑦ: ᑭᓱᒧᑦ ᖃᐅᔨᓴᐅᑎᐅᒻᒪᑦ? ᐹᓴ ᐸᓄᒪᕋᓐᑯ

This presentation was given in Clyde River to show the local people of the area what we do at SuperDARN Canada and why a radar was built in the area.

Principles of Ionospheric Formation

This presentation was given in Jan 2022 and outlines the principles of ionospheric formation. This presentaiton is aimed at college students with a background in some atmospheric or ionospheric physics.


Infographics and Tools (click to download):
Clyde River Radar: What is it for? - Bilingual Poster
What are radio waves? - Poster
What is space weather? - Poster
What does the radar do? - Poster
What is the ionosphere? - Poster
Components of a Radar Infographic
SuperDARN Canada after 30 years
Build Your Own Borealis Experiment