Electrojet irregularity parameters from daytime equatorial scintillations

Details Electrojet irregularity parameters from daytime equatorial scintillations Electrojet irregularity parameters from daytime equatorial scintillations

Feb 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995jatp...57..151b&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics (ISSN 0021-9169), vol. 57, no. 2, p. 151-161

Physics

Amplitudes, Earth Ionosphere, Equatorial Electrojet, Irregularities, Scintillation, Ats 6, Correlation, Hall Effect, Ionospheric Conductivity, Power Spectra, Radio Waves

Scientific paper

The second moment of the complex amplitude or the mutual coherence function (MCF) for transionospheric VHF radio waves transmitted from the geostationary satellite ATS-6 is computed from daytime amplitude and phase scintillations recorded at an equatorial station, in order to study the structure of electrojet irregularities. The shape of the correlation fnction for fluctuations in the integrated electron content along the signal path is deduced by using a theoretical relationship between this correlation function and the MCF which is based on the assumption that the irregularities are 'frozen'. Further, using a power-law spectrum to describe the electrojet irregularities, the outerscale l(sub 0) associated with the spectrum as well as the r.m.s. density fluctuation are estimated from theoretical fits to the computed values. The irregularity drift speeds V(sub 0) transverse to the signal path, for the scintillation events studied here, are derived from power spectra of weak scintillations. On the basis of a relationship between l(sub 0) and V(sub 0) suggested by a linear theory of the gradient-drift instability, the effective Hall conductivity is estimated to be about five times the effective Pedersen conductivity in the electrojet region.

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