Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsa24b..04c&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SA24B-04
Physics
2415 Equatorial Ionosphere, 2435 Ionospheric Disturbances, 2439 Ionospheric Irregularities, 2494 Instruments And Techniques, 7944 Ionospheric Effects On Radio Waves
Scientific paper
We present space-based and ground-based observations of the equatorial ionosphere. Variability in the development of irregularity structures and scintillation is examined. Even at solar minimum, low latitude irregularities routinely develop after sunset and result in VHF scintillation along ground-space propagation paths, but L-band scintillation occurs less frequently. We examine the day-to-day variability of ionospheric conditions leading to VHF and L-band scintillation. In particular the variability of the post-sunset equatorial anomaly plays a significant role. The condition of the equatorial anomaly dictates the background density in which irregularities form and limits the resulting scintillation level. Space-based sensors employed in this study include the Tiny Ionospheric Photometer (TIP) on the COSMIC satellite constellation. Ground-based sensors include: incoherent scatter radar, allsky camera, ionosonde, GPS, and VHF scintillation observed from Kwajalein Atoll.
Basu Sarbani
Budzien Scott A.
Caton R.
Chua Damien H.
Coker Clayton
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