Perspective Ground-based Method for Diagnostics of the Lower Ionosphere and the Neutral Atmosphere
Abstract: We present a new perspective ground-based method for diagnostics of the ionosphere and atmosphere parameters. The method uses one of the numerous physical phenomena observed in the ionosphere illuminated by high-power radio waves. It is a generation of the artificial periodic irregularities (APIs) in the ionospheric plasma. The APIs were found while studying the effects of ionospheric high-power HF modification. It was established that the APIs are formed by a standing wave that occurs due to interference between the upwardly radiated radio wave and its reflection off the ionosphere. The API studies are based upon observation of the Bragg backscatter of the pulsed probe radio wave from the artificial periodic structure. Bragg backscatter occurs if the spatial period of the irregularities is equal to half a wavelength of the probe signal. The API techniques makes it possible to obtain the following information: the profiles of electron density from the lower D-region up to the maximum of the F-layer; the irregular structure of the ionosphere including split of the regular E-layer, the sporadic layers; the vertical velocities in the D- and E-regions of the ionosphere; the turbulent velocities, turbulent diffusion coefficients and the turbopause altitude; the neutral temperatures and densities at the E-region altitudes; the parameters of the internal gravity waves and their spectral characteristics; the relative concentration of negative oxygen ions in the D-region. Some new results obtained by the API technique are discussed.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Perspective Ground-based Method for Diagnostics of the Lower Ionosphere and the Neutral Atmosphere ; volume:22 ; number:1 ; year:2013 ; pages:15-23 ; extent:9
Open astronomy ; 22, Heft 1 (2013), 15-23 (gesamt 9)
- Creator
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Bakhmetieva, N. V.
Grigoriev, G. I.
Tolmacheva, A. V.
- DOI
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10.1515/astro-2017-0143
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2405271649337.344767532505
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 10:59 AM CEST
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- Bakhmetieva, N. V.
- Grigoriev, G. I.
- Tolmacheva, A. V.
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