Multi-technique Studies of Ionospheric Plasma Structuring

Abstract

Understanding physical processes that lead to plasma structuring in the equatorial, mid and high-latitude ionosphere. Identifying the effects of such variability, generally known as ionospheric space weather, on the operation of various communication, navigation and surveillance systems. Establish major drivers that lead to structured ionospheric plasma in equatorial, mid and high-latitude regions. Investigate cascading of plasma structuring from large (tilde hundreds of km) to small (tilde tens of m) scales, which cause outages in space-based communication and GPS-based navigation systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2009
Accession Number
ADA602953

Entities

People

  • Sunanda Basu

Organizations

  • Boston University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Cycles
  • Electric Fields
  • Electron Density
  • High Latitudes
  • Ionosphere
  • Ionospheric Disturbances
  • Ionospheric Scintillation
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Magnetic Storms
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Plasma Instabilities
  • Scintillation
  • Solar Cycle
  • Space Weather
  • Time Intervals

Readers

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites