USING THE RINGING IRREGULARITY AS AN ANALYTICAL TOOL.

Abstract

The hypothesis is advanced that a high percentage of ionospheric scintillation is a distortion of a regular cyclic type of fading seen occasionally on chart recordings of HF and VHF radio frequency signals that have penetrated the ionosphere. Analysis of satellite signals containing this special type of anomaly leads to a better understanding of ionospheric scintillation in general. The paper shows how many properties of normal scintillation are consistent with the two ray interference formula derived for the more orderly pattern. As an illustration we have included the analysis of an ionospheric irregularity appearing over Thule that provides height and electron density measurements. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0693586

Entities

People

  • Frederick F. Slack

Organizations

  • Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Charged Particles
  • Distortion
  • Electron Density
  • Electrons
  • Elementary Fermions
  • Elementary Particles
  • Fermions
  • Frequency
  • Ionosphere
  • Ionospheric Scintillation
  • Leptons
  • Measurement
  • Radio Frequency
  • Scintillation

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Atmospheric Science / Meteorology, specifically Wind Wave Turbulence.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Space