INHOMOGENEOUS STRUCTURE OF THE HIGH-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE AS OBSERVED AT NORILSK
In March and August/September 1995, February 1996, and in March-April 1998, observations of the inhomogeneous structure of the highlatitude ionosphere were carried out at Norilsk (geomagnetic latitude and longitude are 64.2 ◦ N and 160.4 ◦ E, and L = 5.2). Small-scale irregularities (with the lifeti...
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2001
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.262.5701 http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0107031v2.pdf |
| Summary: | In March and August/September 1995, February 1996, and in March-April 1998, observations of the inhomogeneous structure of the highlatitude ionosphere were carried out at Norilsk (geomagnetic latitude and longitude are 64.2 ◦ N and 160.4 ◦ E, and L = 5.2). Small-scale irregularities (with the lifetime of several seconds,and the spatial scale less than 5-7 km), and medium-size wave irregularities(with the period of 10-50 min, and the horizontal size of tens and hundreds of kilometres) of the ionospheric F layer were investigated under different geophysical conditions. A total of 300 hours of observations was recorded, including 250 reflections from the F2 layer, and the other reflections from the sporadic E layer. The diurnal variations of inhomogeneous structure parameters in March and April is obtained. Dependence of some ionospheric irregularity parameters on geomagnetic activity is presented. 1 |
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