Response of topside radio sounding signals to small-scale field-aligned ionospheric irregularities

Details Response of topside radio sounding signals to small-scale field-aligned ionospheric irregularities Response of topside radio sounding signals to small-scale field-aligned ionospheric irregularities

Nov 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997jastp..59.2231z&link_type=abstract

Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics, v. 59, p. 2231-2246.

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Small-scale ionospheric irregularities produce numerous observed effects during high-frequency radio wave sounding from a satellite. Scattering of z-mode waves radiated by an ionosonde, which results in the occurrence of characteristic traces on ionograms, are among the most complex of them. In the present paper the factors determining the power characteristics of such signals are considered. These are the size and shape of the surface of orthogonality for a family of z-mode waves radiated from a satellite, features of the radiating and propagating radio waves in a non-uniform magnetized plasma, and the details of the scattering process. Simple but adequate physical models for each of these factors are presented and a numerical calculation algorithm of the power of the z-mode scattered signals received by the satellite sounder receiver has been constructed. Values for this calculated quantity are presented as a function of time delay, sounding frequency, and magnetic latitude. A synthesis of topside ionograms showing z-mode scattered traces has been performed. The results support new diagnostic methods of detecting small-scale ionospheric irregularities using topside-sounder z-mode signals returns and the concept that the sounder radiation can, under certain conditions, stimulate artificial plasma turbulence. In addition, it was shown that z-mode scattering may contribute to the resonance observed at the plasma frequency on topside ionograms.

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