Eleven Years of Ionospheric Scintillation Fading Data from Twenty Greenlandic Stations

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 w...

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Main Author: Johnson, Allen L.
Other Authors: WRIGHT LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1992
Subjects:
Atmospheric Physics
Meteorology
Unmanned Spacecraft
*IONOSPHERE
*POLAR REGIONS
*METEOROLOGICAL DATA
*SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS
*SOLAR ACTIVITY
DENSITY
REGIONS
WIND VELOCITY
WEATHER STATIONS
GREENLAND
LATITUDE
SCINTILLATION
IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION
BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
COMMUNICATION AND RADIO SYSTEMS
WIND DIRECTION
ERRORS
NETWORKS
ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
STATISTICS
RELATIVE HUMIDITY
PE33601F
WUWL12270126
Arctic
Greenland
greenlandic
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA253271
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA253271
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Summary: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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