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Jan 1979
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Icarus, vol. 37, Jan. 1979, p. 322-335. Research supported by the Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Forskningsrad;
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Atmospheric Turbulence, Planetary Atmospheres, Power Spectra, Stellar Occultation, Atmospheric Stratification, Inhomogeneity, Integral Equations, Phase Deviation, Radio Occultation, Scintillation, Wave Propagation, Turbulence, Occultations, Spectrum, Scintillations, Atmosphere, Coupling, Refractive Index, Fluctuations, Asymmetry, Models, Phases, Waves, Venus, Mariner 5, Radio Occultations
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Power spectra of phase and intensity scintillations during occultation by turbulent planetary atmospheres are significantly affected by the inhomogeneous background upon which the turbulence is superimposed. Such coupling is particularly pronounced in the intensity, where there is also a marked difference in spectral shape between a central and grazing occultation. While the former has its structural features smoothed by coupling to the inhomogeneous background, such features are enhanced in the latter. Indeed, the latter power spectrum peaks around the characteristic frequency that is determined by the size of the free-space Fresnel zone and the ray velocity in the atmosphere; at higher frequencies strong fringes develop in the power spectrum. A confrontation between the theoretical scintillation spectra computed here and those calculated from the Mariner 5 Venus mission by Woo et al. (1974) is inconclusive, mainly because of insufficient statistical resolution. Phase and/or intensity power spectra computed from occultation data may be used to deduce characteristics of the turbulence and to distinguish turbulence from other perturbations in the refractive index. Such determinations are facilitated if observations are made at two or more frequencies (radio occultation) or in two or more colors (stellar occultation).
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