Rates of scattering occurrence in routine HF radar observations during solar cycle maximum

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1051-1070

  Ruohoniemi, J M ^a,b   Greenwald, R A ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; F REGION; IONOSPHERE; MAGNETOPLASMA; RADAR; RADAR ASTRONOMY; SOLAR ENERGY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS;

BOUNDARY-LAYER REGIONS; CONTINUOUS MONITORING; GEOPHYSICAL FACTORS; HF RADAR OBSERVATIONS; HIGH-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC PLASMAS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SUPER DUAL AURORAL RADAR NETWORK;

RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR;

FELDSTEIN OVAL; RADAR SCATTERING; SOLAR CYCLES;

EID: 0031130342     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RS00116     Document Type: Article

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