NRL HF propagation mesurements between Guadeloupe and Providenciales during the CRRES exercises
During this experiment series, scientists from NRL and LANL deployed high frequency radio transmitters on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and receiving equipment on the island of Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The objective of these tests was twofold: (1) to determine the effect of injecting chemical agents known to affect the ambient plasma into a region of the ionospheric F layer subject to {open_quotes}heating{close_quotes} by HF radiowaves (2) to assess the effect of the combined chemical and radiowave modification on HF skywave propagation through the modified ionosphere. Successful NRL channel probe measurements were made during experiments AA-3a (HF Induced Ionospheric Striations) and AA-4 (Ionospheric Focussed Heating). This report is intended to provide a brief description of some of the salient observational results from these two experiments.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36; AI32-92AL82529
- OSTI ID:
- 10157019
- Report Number(s):
- LA-SUB-94-79; ON: DE94012078; TRN: 94:006018
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: [1994]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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