Coupled Barium Cloud-Ionosphere Systems. 4. Striation Penetration into an Inhomogeneous Ionosphere

Abstract

The present study investigates, via linear theory, how striations (treated as perturbations) created in a plasma cloud, centered at 200 km, will penetrate into the background inhomogeneous (real) ionosphere as a function of wavelength, integrated Pedersen conductivity ratio of the cloud to ionosphere, and ambient ionospheric conditions. The study is posed as an eigenvalue problem which while determining the potential variaton (eigenmode) along magnetic field lines, self-consistently solves for the growth rate (eigenvalue) in the coupled cloud-inhomogeneous ionospheric system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1975
Accession Number
ADA015618

Entities

People

  • A. J. Scannapieco
  • L. Baker
  • S. R. Goldman
  • Sidney L. Ossakow

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Altitude
  • Aspect Angle
  • Collisions
  • Diffusion Coefficient
  • Eigenvalues
  • Electric Fields
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Electrons
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Ionosphere
  • Long Wavelengths
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Navy
  • Security
  • Short Wavelengths

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics