Comment on Blagoveshchenskaya et al. Artificial Ducts Created via High-Power HF Radio Waves at EISCAT. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 2300

The claim that incoherent scatter radar data show electron density enhancements of 50–80% during some ionospheric heating experiments in a recent paper is questioned. The backscatter from the monostatic radar can indeed be enhanced during these experiments, but the conclusion that a large electron d...

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Published in:Remote Sensing
Main Authors: Michael Rietveld, Andrew Senior
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
Subjects:
incoherent scatter radar
electron density
artificial field-aligned irregularities
duct
EISCAT
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15174294
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spelling ftmdpi:oai:mdpi.com:/2072-4292/15/17/4294/ 2023-10-01T03:55:43+02:00 Comment on Blagoveshchenskaya et al. Artificial Ducts Created via High-Power HF Radio Waves at EISCAT. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 2300 Michael Rietveld Andrew Senior agris 2023-08-31 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15174294 eng eng Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15174294 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Remote Sensing Volume 15 Issue 17 Pages: 4294 incoherent scatter radar electron density artificial field-aligned irregularities duct Text 2023 ftmdpi https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15174294 2023-09-03T23:54:48Z The claim that incoherent scatter radar data show electron density enhancements of 50–80% during some ionospheric heating experiments in a recent paper is questioned. The backscatter from the monostatic radar can indeed be enhanced during these experiments, but the conclusion that a large electron density increase is the cause is almost certainly wrong. Some natural plasma line data are presented in support of our claim. Previously published studies of similar events and a possible explanation for the observed increases in backscattered power are pointed out. Text EISCAT MDPI Open Access Publishing Remote Sensing 15 17 4294
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electron density
artificial field-aligned irregularities
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electron density
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Comment on Blagoveshchenskaya et al. Artificial Ducts Created via High-Power HF Radio Waves at EISCAT. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 2300
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artificial field-aligned irregularities
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description The claim that incoherent scatter radar data show electron density enhancements of 50–80% during some ionospheric heating experiments in a recent paper is questioned. The backscatter from the monostatic radar can indeed be enhanced during these experiments, but the conclusion that a large electron density increase is the cause is almost certainly wrong. Some natural plasma line data are presented in support of our claim. Previously published studies of similar events and a possible explanation for the observed increases in backscattered power are pointed out.
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