Trends in Occurrence of Polar Cap SuperDARN Echoes and Electron Density Variations in the Ionosphere

• Main Author: Ullrich, Syd
• Other Authors: Koustov, Sasha, McWilliams, Kathryn, Couedel, Lenaic, Ghezelbash, Masoud, Achenbach, Sven
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Saskatchewan 2021
• Subjects: SuperDARN; Ionosphere; Physics; Plasma; Backscatter; Occurrence; high-latitude; electron density; plasma density; ray tracing; thesis; Rankin Inlet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10388/13253

This thesis presents three completed objectives related to the operation of the high-frequency (HF) Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) radars. The first objective was to gain a general understanding of how radio waves propagate through the Earth's ionosphere to result in SuperDARN ech...