An evaluation of range accuracy in the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network over-the-horizon HF radar systems

The authors thank the director and staff of EISCAT for the operation of the Tromso heater facility. EISCAT is an international facility funded collaboratively by the research councils of Finland (SA), France (CNRS), the Federal Republic of Germany (MPG), Japan (NIPR), Norway (NFR), Sweden (NFR), and the United Kingdom (PPARC). The SuperDARN Hankasalmi and Pykkvib•er HF radars are deployed and operated by the University of Leicester and funded by the PPARC (grant PPA/R/R/1997/00256), the Finnish Meteorological Institute, and the Swedish Institute for Space Physics. D.M.W. is supported on PPARC grant PPA/G/O/1997/000254.