In Memoriam: Jules Aarons (1921-2008): Space Weather Pioneer

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May 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009spwea...705003m&link_type=abstract

Space Weather, Volume 7, Issue 5, CiteID S05003

Physics

Radio Science: Ionospheric Physics (1240, 2400), Ionosphere: Ionospheric Irregularities, Space Weather: Ionospheric Storms (2441)

Scientific paper

Prior to the use of the phrase “space weather” to summarize all possible effects of solar-terrestrial physics upon technological systems, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) created and maintained active programs in the application aspects of space physics. The person arguably most associated with those efforts was Jules Aarons, who died on 21 November 2008 at age 87 at his home in Newton, Mass. Jules was a research professor of astronomy and space physics at Boston University from 1981 to 2005, but it was as a civilian scientist at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL) from 1946 to 1981 that Jules emerged as a true leader in studies of how the ionosphere can affect radio communications. He specialized in scintillations, those serious fluctuations of radio signal amplitudes and phases that cause dropouts in otherwise reliable communications links.

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