Eleven Years of Ionospheric Scintillation Fading Data from Twenty Greenlandic Stations

Abstract

Radio communications in the polar region are subject to periodic outages due to rapid density fluctuations in the Arctic ionosphere. In order to evaluate the effect of solar activity on these outages, the messages from an extensive network of unmanned automatic meteorological stations in Greenland were recorded. In a joint project between the Danish Meteorological Institute and the U.S. Air Force Wright Laboratory, the recorded data were reduced and analyzed to derive bit-error-rate and missed message statistics. These data are summarized in hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly plots for 20 mid-latitude, auroral, and polar station around Greenland. This report describes the results of the-experiment. The Appendices (WL-TR-92-1051) contains 100 station years of data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA253271

Entities

People

  • Allen L. Johnson

Organizations

  • Wright Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Data Analysis
  • Diurnal Variations
  • Frequency
  • Greenland
  • Information Science
  • Ionospheric Scintillation
  • Latitude
  • Measurement
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Radio Communications
  • Satellite Communications
  • Solar Activity
  • Stations
  • Statistics
  • Weather Stations

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy