RESEARCH WORKS RELATED TO SOLAR RADIO EMISSION AND V.L.F. PROPAGATION IN THE LOWER IONOSPHERE.

Abstract

Contents: Report on operations; On the installation of very low frequency tracking stations at umuarama radio observatory: description of the system and initial results; Discussion on D-region modifications during sudden ionospheric disturbances, measured on phase and amplitude at very low frequencies; Approximated calibration curves for the Sao Paulo V.L.F. tracking receivers; A short note on 20 May 1966 annular solar eclipse effects on VLF propagation path Criggion-Sao Paulo; Computation of average amplitude of V.L.F. transmissions; Comments on measuring methods with a new 7 GHz solar radio polarimeter: first results relative to solar activity from 30 October to 14 November 1966, including 12 November eclipse event; Relevant technical features of a new solar radio polarimeter working on 4.28-cm wavelength; Calculations of apparent sky temperatures and of tropospheric absorption on solar radiation at 4.28-cm wavelength; A description of trapped particle distribution at 900-km of altitude near the South Atlantic geomagnetic anomaly; Influence of zenith distance on atmospheric absorption due to water vapor and oxygen at the frequency of 17 GHz.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0647794

Entities

People

  • Pierre Kaufmann

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Amplitude
  • Atmospheric Attenuation
  • Eclipses
  • Frequency
  • Ionospheric Disturbances
  • Polarimeters
  • Radiation
  • Solar Activity
  • Solar Eclipses
  • Solar Radiation
  • Tracking Stations
  • Very Low Frequency
  • Water Vapor

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.