A brief review of equatorial plasma bubbles

AS Patil, DP Nade, A Taori, RP Pawar, SM Pawar… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) have long been studied and are becoming increasingly
important because they cause severe scintillations in radio waves from Global Navigation …

The São Luís 30 MHz coherent scatter ionospheric radar: System description and initial results

ER de Paula, DL Hysell - Radio Science, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new 30 MHz coherent scatter ionospheric radar has been operating at the equatorial
station at São Luís (2.33° S, 44° W, dip latitude 1.3° S), Brazil, since December 2000. This …

First observations of the spatial structure of F region 3‐m‐scale field‐aligned irregularities with the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar in Indonesia

S Fukao, Y Ozawa, T Yokoyama… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents first results of spatial structure associated with 47‐MHz coherent
backscatter from the low‐latitude F region in the Indonesian‐Thai longitude sector. The …

On the combined effects of vertical shear and zonal electric field patterns on nonlinear equatorial spread F evolution

R Sekar, MC Kelley - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
In order to understand observations of modulated irregularities in a localized region on the
bottomside of the equatorial ionosphere without the presence of vertically rising large‐scale …

On the importance of wave‐like structures in the occurrence of equatorial plasma bubbles: A case study

VL Narayanan, A Taori, AK Patra… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Coordinated observations of equatorial plasma bubbles (EPBs) have been made with an all‐
sky airglow imager, narrow bandwidth photometer, VHF radar, and ionosonde over the …

Space weather research: Indian perspective

A Bhardwaj, TK Pant, RK Choudhary, D Nandy… - Space …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Space weather, just like its meteorological counterpart, is of extreme importance
when it comes to its impact on terrestrial near‐and far‐space environments. In recent years …

A case study of the daytime intense radar backscatter and strong ionospheric scintillation related to the low‐latitude E‐region irregularities

G Chen, Z Wang, H Jin, C Yan, S Zhang… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The special daytime echoes, which present the V‐shaped echo pattern between 90–180 km
ranges in the range‐time‐intensity (RTI) plot, were occasionally recorded by the Hainan …

The advanced Indian MST radar (AIR): System description and sample observations

MD Rao, P Kamaraj, JK Kumar, K Jayaraj… - Radio …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An upgraded version of the Indian MST radar, called Advanced Indian Mesosphere-
Stratosphere-Troposphere (MST) radar (AIR), has recently been commissioned. The prime …

Small‐scale (∼3 m) E region irregularities at and off the magnetic equator

BVK Murthy, S Ravindran… - Journal of …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
VHF backscatter radar observations at and off the magnetic equator (Trivandrum and
Gadanki, respectively) have been analyzed to study the small‐scale (∼ 3 m) irregularities at …

On the growth and evolution of nocturnal ionospheric irregularities using HF radar observations along with digisonde and GNSS data over Trivandrum, India

TV Sruthi, G Manju - Space Weather, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The growth and evolution of nocturnal ionospheric plasma irregularities are analyzed over
the geomagnetic equatorial station Trivandrum (8.5° N, 77° E, dip latitude 1.9° N) using multi …