An item headlined – “Virginia Tech research to study inter-hemispheric space weather connections” caught my eye. I read the thing and threw up my hands after Paragraph 3.
Here’s the paragraph (from this release):
Baker will use simultaneous measurements from Super Dual Auroral Radar Network, or SuperDARN for short, radars in both the hemispheres to investigate the inter-hemispheric magnetic conjugacy of ionospheric irregularities and plasma convection.
Conjugacy, in this context, refers to the generally similar ionospheric conditions in both polar regions produced by the fact that the Earth’s magnetic field has a symmetric shape, similar to a bar magnet.
Well, I like
(a) the idea of space weather,
(b) SuperDARN, and
(c) the stuff that “conjugacy” gets going in my mind . . .
– but I have no idea what they’re trying to tell me in that paragraph.
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