Measurements of the Doppler and multipath spread of HF signals received over a path oriented along the midlatitude trough

Radio Science

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Warrington, E M ^a   Stocker, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ionospheric HF propagation; Midlatitude trough

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; RADIO SYSTEMS;

DOPPLER SPREAD; IONOSPHERIC HIGH FREQUENCY PROPAGATION; MIDLATITUDE TROUGH;

RADIO TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0346215901     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002rs002815     Document Type: Article

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