Generation of Artificial Acoustic-Gravity Waves and Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances in HF Heating Experiments
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Watkins, B. J.
Pradipta, Rezy
Lee, Min-Chang
Cohen, Joel A
Date Issued
February 2015
Journal
Earth, Moon, and Planets
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Springer Netherlands
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Pradipta, R., M. C. Lee, J. A. Cohen, and B. J. Watkins. “Generation of Artificial Acoustic-Gravity Waves and Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances in HF Heating Experiments.” Earth, Moon, and Planets 116, no. 1 (February 7, 2015): 67–78.
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Abstract
We report the results of our ionospheric HF heating experiments to generate artificial acoustic-gravity waves (AGW) and traveling ionospheric disturbances (TID), which were conducted at the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program facility in Gakona, Alaska. Based on the data from UHF radar, GPS total electron content, and ionosonde measurements, we found that artificial AGW/TID can be generated in ionospheric modification experiments by sinusoidally modulating the power envelope of the transmitted O-mode HF heater waves. In this case, the modulation frequency needs to be set below the characteristic Brunt–Vaisala frequency at the relevant altitudes. We avoided potential contamination from naturally-occurring AGW/TID of auroral origin by conducting the experiments during geomagnetically quiet time period. We determine that these artificial AGW/TID propagate away from the edge of the heated region with a horizontal speed of approximately 160 m/s.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Space Propulsion Lab
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11038-015-9461-2
