Transverse-beam incoherent scatter radar measurements of F region plasma densities at Jicamarca

• Autores: Feng, Zhaomei, Kudeki, Erhan, Woodman Pollitt, Ronald Francisco, Chau Chong Shing, Jorge Luis
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2003
• Institución: Instituto Geofísico del Perú
• Repositorio: IGP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.igp.gob.pe:20.500.12816/1809
• Enlace del recurso: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12816/1809; https://doi.org/10.1029/2002RS002722
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Equatorial ionosphere; Ionospheric propagation; Remote sensing; Waves in plasma; http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.05.01

Models for the self- and cross-correlation of orthogonal polarized quasi-transverse incoherent scatter returns are presented. The models are used to estimate the F region plasma densities with dual-polarization transverse-beam incoherent scatter data collected at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory using a technique introduced by Kudeki et al. [2003]. The cross-correlation model takes into account magneto-ionic propagation effects associated with quasi-transverse O- and X-modes in an inhomogeneous ionosphere. The phase of the cross-correlation provides the information to convert the measured power data into ionospheric density estimates via a least squares fitting procedure.