A large‐scale ionospheric depletion by intense radio wave heating
- 7 December 1988
- journal article
- Published by American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Geophysical Research Letters
- Vol. 15 (13) , 1531-1533
- https://doi.org/10.1029/gl015i013p01531
Abstract
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.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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