Abstract. We present the historical background of the construction of a major ionospheric heating facility, “Heating”, near Tromsø, Norway, in the 1970s by the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy; we also detail the facility's subsequent operational history to the present. Heating was built next to the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) incoherent scatter (IS) radar facility and in a region with a multitude of diagnostic instruments used to study the auroral region. The facility was transferred to EISCAT in January 1993 and continues to provide new discoveries in plasma physics and ionospheric and atmospheric science to this day. It is expected that Heating will continue operating along with the new generation of IS radar, called EISCAT_3D, when it is commissioned in the near future.

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特罗姆瑟电离层加热设施的历史

摘要。我们介绍了 1970 年代马克斯普朗克航空研究所在挪威特罗姆瑟附近建造主要电离层加热设施“加热”的历史背景；我们还详细介绍了该设施到现在的后续运营历史。Heating 建在欧洲非相干散射科学协会 (EISCAT) 非相干散射 (IS) 雷达设施旁边，并且该地区拥有大量用于研究极光区域的诊断仪器。该设施于 1993 年 1 月转移到 EISCAT，并继续提供等离子体物理学、电离层和大气科学的新发现。预计在不久的将来，Heating 将与称为 EISCAT_3D 的新一代 IS 雷达一起继续运行。