Geospace environmental monitoring at Zhongshan Station, Antarctica

Geospace deals with the Earth\u27s middle and upper atmosphere, thermosphere/ionosphere and magnetosphere. This geospace environment is of great scientific and practical interest. Situated in both the cusp region and the ozone controlled area, the Chinese Antarctic Zhongshan Station (69.4°S, 76.4°E) has a unique location for ground-based measurements in monitoring geospace environment. According to the scientific concept of global character of solar-terrestrial system, during past few years at Zhongshan Station has been built a ground-based composite measurement system, with more than 20 different instruments relevant to solar radiation, geomagnetic field, aurora, ionospheric disturbances and middle and low atmospheric phenomena. In the paper the observational strategy, composite instruments, measured data and some preliminary results are described