This page explains the conditions and rules for using PANSY radar's data products.

User registration

To get a user account, please fill in the form and send it.
Please include which region (ST/MES) and what period you want to analyze.
We might contact you for further information about the scientific purpose of using data.

No secondary distribution

As we want to know the usage status of our data products, we prohibit the secondary distribution.
Please send us the proposal for collaborative research and register an account of you own, even if your laboratory already has the one.

Acknowledgments and Citation

When you publish your research, please cite our original paper ^[1] in your publications and include appropriate acknowledgments.
You can find an example of the acknowledgments here.
→ About - Acknowledgments
Also, we highly appreciate if you notify us when you publish a research that is using our data products.
¹ Sato, K., M. Tsutsumi, T. Sato, T. Nakamura, A. Saito, Y. Tomikawa, K. Nishimura, M. Kohma, H. Yamagishi and T. Yamanouchi, Program of the Antarctic Syowa MST/IS Radar (PANSY) (2014), J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., 118, PartA, 2-15, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2013.08.022. (Jumps to Journal Web Page)

Data correctness

Although we carefully assessed the quality of our data products, we are not responsible for the data correctness.
This also applies for any examples on data processing or calibration we provide, such as the evaluation of the galactic noise temperature in Data Specifications - Calibration of echo intensities.