Charged dust phenomena in the near-Earth space environment

WA Scales, A Mahmoudian - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Dusty (or complex) plasmas in the Earth's middle and upper atmosphere ultimately result in
exotic phenomena that are currently forefront research issues in the space science …

Electron temperature enhancement effects on plasma irregularities associated with charged dust in the Earth's mesosphere

C Chen, WA Scales - Journal of Geophysical Research: Space …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, experimental observations have shown that Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes
(PMSE) may be modulated by radio wave heating the irregularity source region with a …

Preliminary study on active modulation of polar mesosphere summer echoes with the radio propagation in layered space dusty plasma

S Zhou, H Li, L Fu, M Wang - Plasma Science and Technology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Radar echoes intensity of polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE) is greatly affected by
the temperature of dusty plasma and the frequency of electromagnetic wave about the radar …

First modulation of high‐frequency polar mesospheric summer echoes by radio heating of the ionosphere

A Senior, A Mahmoudian, H Pinedo… - Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The first high‐frequency (HF, 8 MHz) observations of the modulation of polar mesospheric
summer echoes (PMSE) by artificial radio heating of the ionosphere are presented and …

Non-equilibrium modeling of the PMSE Overshoot Effect revisited: A comprehensive study

A Biebricher, O Havnes - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2012 - cambridge.org
Numerical investigations of the Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes (PMSE) Overshoot Effect
have to date been undertaken under the premise of plasma neutrality and current …

A comparison of overshoot modelling with observations of polar mesospheric summer echoes at radar frequencies of 56 and 224 MHz

O Havnes, H Pinedo, C La Hoz, A Senior… - Annales …, 2015 - angeo.copernicus.org
We have compared radar observations of polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSEs)
modulated by artificial electron heating, at frequencies of 224 MHz (EISCAT VHF) and 56 …

Dusty space plasma diagnosis using the behavior of polar mesospheric summer echoes during electron precipitation events

A Mahmoudian, A Senior, WA Scales… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The behavior of polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSEs) during an electron
precipitation event is investigated by including dusty plasma effects for the first time. The …

Global Simulations of Multi‐Frequency HF Signal Absorption for Direct Observation of Middle Atmosphere Temperature and Composition

A Mahmoudian, MJ Kosch… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper presents the first numerical study on a new concept for the direct measurement of
D‐region absorption in the high‐frequency (HF) band. Numerical simulations based on the …

On initial enhancement of mesospheric dust associated plasma irregularities subsequent to radiowave heating

WA Scales, C Chen - Annales geophysicae, 2008 - angeo.copernicus.org
Important observational manifestations of subvisible mesospheric dust are Polar
Mesospheric Summer Echoes PMSE which are produced by scattering from electron …

On the signature of positively charged dust particles on plasma irregularities in the mesosphere

A Mahmoudian, WA Scales - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial …, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent rocket payloads have studied the properties of aerosol particles within the ambient
plasma environment in the polar mesopause region and measured the signature of the …