A large-scale ionospheric depletion by intense radio wave heating

A large (100 km N/S), stable, smoothly‐structured and significant depletion (15% in number density) of the daytime Tromsø F‐region was produced inadvertently during a Heater polarisation and beam‐forming procedure. We show that the depletion coincided with the passage of an atmospheric gravity wave of natural origin which served as a large‐scale ‘seed‘ depletion for the self‐focussing instability

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Publication status:
Published
Author(s):
Authors: Wright, J.W., Kopka, H., Stubbe, P.

Date:
1 January, 1988
Journal/Source:
Geophysical Research Letters / 15
Page(s):
1531-1533
Link to published article:
https://doi.org/10.1029/GL015i013p01531