Irregularity anisotropy and drifts from polar-cap scintillations during the current solar maximum

Technical Report · Thu May 03 00:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6193458

Basu, S; Basu, S; Costa, E

Spaced receiver scintillation measurements made at Thule, Greenland during two sunspot maximum CEDAR High Latitude Plasma Structure (HLPS) campaigns in Dec 1988 and Nov 1989 have been analyzed to yield phase and amplitude scintillation magnitude, decorrelation time, irregularity drifts and anisotropy of the ground diffraction pattern during well defined polar cap patch and sun-aligned arc events. It is found that all these parameters tend to be different in these two classes of events which are controlled by the Bz component of the interplanetary magnetic field.

• Research Organization: Air Force Geophysics Lab., Hanscom AFB, MA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6193458
• Report Number(s): AD-P-006274/5/XAB
• Resource Relation: Other Information: This article is from 'The Effect of the Ionosphere on Radiowave Signals and Systems Performance Based on Ionospheric Effects Symposium Held on 1-3 May 1990', AD-A233 797, p92-99. Prepared in collaboration with GL(AFSC)/LIS, Hanscom AFB, MA 01731
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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INTERPLANETARY MAGNETIC FIELDS
IONOSPHERE
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SCINTILLATIONS
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