Computer Science – Sound
Scientific paper
May 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011jgra..11605301v&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 116, Issue A5, CiteID A05301
Computer Science
Sound
Ionosphere: Active Experiments, Ionosphere: Ionospheric Irregularities, Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions (2736), Ionosphere: Plasma Waves And Instabilities (2772), Ionosphere: Ionospheric Dynamics
Scientific paper
Cooperative UK Twin-Located Auroral Sounding System (CUTLASS) HF backscatter targets may be artificially produced using the European Incoherent Scatter (EISCAT) HF ionospheric modification facility at Tromsø, Norway. Plasma irregularities created in this way are known to be highly field aligned and usually give rise to radar echoes possessing spectral widths that are much lower than those seen in natural radar auroral data. In this study we present CUTLASS Finland and Iceland observations of heater-induced irregularities; these irregularities gave rise to enhanced spectral width in the Iceland radar backscatter signal, while the width observed by the Finland radar, pointing almost orthogonal to the Iceland beams, remained low. The observations coincided with a period of disturbed ionospheric conditions when faster-flowing natural irregularities were present, poleward of the heated volume, as well as a flow gradient across the heated volume itself. A latitudinal variation of the Doppler velocity measurements was exhibited in both the Finland and Iceland radar observations. We suggest that this flow inhomogeneity, taken together with the geometry of the observing radar beams, would explain not only the broad spectrum of flow components across the heated volume detected by the Iceland radar but also the asymmetry between the spectral widths measured at Iceland and Finland.
Robinson Thomas
Vickers H.
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