The heating of the high lattitude ionosphere by high power radio waves

TR Robinson - Physics reports, 1989 - Elsevier
The high power radio facility, built jointly by the Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie, Lindau
and the University of Tromsø, at Tromsø in Northern Norway, has been operational since …

Temporal behaviour of artificial small-scale ionospheric irregularities: Review of experimental results

VL Frolov, LM Erukhimov, SA Metelev… - Journal of atmospheric …, 1997 - Elsevier
Features of artificial small-scale ionospheric irregularities (ASI) induced at F-region heights
by powerful HF waves are discussed. The investigations presented here were performed …

Nonlinear phenomena in the ionosphere

AV Gurevich - Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics, 1976 - Springer
Nonlinear effects in the ionosphere (cr0ss-modulation or the Luxembourg-Gor'kii effect)
became known and were investigated in a fair amount of detail as far back as the 1930, s …

Field-aligned scattering from a heated region of the ionosphere—Observations at HF and VHF

PA Fialer - Radio Science, 1974 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radio scattering measurements have been made of a region of the ionosphere above the
Institute for Telecommunication Sciences' ionospheric heating facility at Platteville …

Time variations of HF‐induced plasma waves

RL Showen, DM Kim - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 1978 - Wiley Online Library
Intense plasma waves are generated by an HF pump wave in an ionospheric heating
experiment at the Arecibo Observatory. These plasma waves can be observed as …

Ionospheric heating by powerful radio waves

G Meltz, LH Holway Jr, NM Tomljanovich - Radio Science, 1974 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to the communication applications that stem from the generation of field‐aligned
irregularities, ionospheric heating by powerful HF waves also holds promise for establishing …

Creating space plasma from the ground

HC Carlson, FT Djuth, LD Zhang - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We have performed an experiment to compare as directly as realizable the ionization
production rate by HF radio wave energy versus by solar EUV. We take advantage of the …

Generation and detection of super small striations by F region HF heating

A Najmi, G Milikh, J Secan, K Chiang… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent theoretical models and preliminary observations indicate that super small striations
(SSS) in the plasma density with scale size of 10 cm can be excited by F region HF heating …

Ionospheric modification induced by high-power HF transmitters—A potential for extended range VHF-UHF communications and plasma physics research

WF Utlaut - Proceedings of the IEEE, 1975 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When the ionized upper atmosphere of the earth is illuminated by high-power HF radio
waves at appropriate frequencies, the temperature of electrons in the ionosphere can be …

Excitation of upper-hybrid waves by a thermal parametric instability

MC Lee, SP Kuo - Journal of plasma physics, 1983 - cambridge.org
A purely growing instability characterized by a four-wave interaction has been analysed in a
uniform, magnetized plasma. Up-shifted and down-shifted upper-hybrid waves and a non …