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Science 27 June 2003:
Vol. 300. no. 5628, pp. 2017 - 2018
DOI: 10.1126/science.300.5628.2017a
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES:
NSF Steps Over Political Hurdles to Build Mobile Radar Facility

Jeffrey Mervis

Space weather researchers were crestfallen in 1998 when a powerful legislator blocked a long-planned upper atmospheric radar facility in Canada's Arctic region rather than in his native state of Alaska. But this month the National Science Foundation decided to proceed with a mobile and modular facility that will satisfy his geographic requirements--and perform even more science than the original version.

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