Possible mechanism for echo striation generation of radar backscatter from midlatitude sporadic E

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1155-1164

  Maruyama, Takashi ^a   Fukao, Shoichiro ^b   Yamamoto, Mamoru ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E REGION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR REFLECTION; SATELLITES; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; BACKSCATTERING; PERIODIC STRUCTURES; RADAR; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO WAVES; SCINTILLATION; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ECHO STRIATION; RADAR BACKSCATTERING; RANGE TIME INTENSITY;

RADIO TRANSMISSION; E REGION;

BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES; OBSERVATION TECHNIQUES; POSSIBLE MECHANISMS; RADAR BACKSCATTER; RADIO WAVE SCINTILLATIONS; SMALL-SCALE IRREGULARITIES; SPATIAL STRUCTURE;

EID: 0034265948     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002296     Document Type: Article

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