Computer Science – Sound
Scientific paper
Oct 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980georl...7..848t&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 7, Oct. 1980, p. 848-850.
Computer Science
Sound
7
Backscattering, Equatorial Atmosphere, Ionospheric Disturbances, Ionospheric Sounding, Spread F, Debye Length, Electron Flux Density, Irregularities, Radar Scattering, Wavelengths
Scientific paper
In the equatorial F-region ionosphere, a turbulent cascade process has been found to exist that extends from irregularity spatial wavelengths longer than tens of kilometers down to wavelengths as short as 36 cm. To investigate the small-scale regime of wavelengths less than 36 cm, an equatorial radar experiment was conducted using a frequency of 1320 MHz that corresponds to an irregularity wavelength of 11 cm. The first observations of radar backscatter from 11-cm field-aligned irregularities (FAI) are described. These measurements extend the spatial wavelength regime of F-region FAI to lengths that approach both electron gyroradius and the Debye length. Agreement of these results with the theory of high-frequency drift waves suggests that these observations may be unique to the equatorial ionosphere. That is, the requirement for low electron densities for which the theory calls may preclude the existence of 11-cm FAI elsewhere in the F-region ionosphere, except in equatorial plasma bubbles.
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