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The SuperDARN chain of HF radars now covers a considerable portion of the auroral zone, cusp and polar cap regions in both hemispheres. The use of the radars to study magnetospheric convection in conjugate regions is reviewed. There is now a conjugate pair of bistatic radars, which allows conjugate convection velocity vectors to be determined. This leads to new opportunities for studying conjugate phenomena. Preliminary results from these radars are reviewed.
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Walker, A.D.M. (1998). HF Radars as a Tool for Conjugate Studies of Magnetospheric Phenomena. In: Moen, J., Egeland, A., Lockwood, M. (eds) Polar Cap Boundary Phenomena. NATO ASI Series, vol 509. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5214-3_23
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