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Incoherent radar scatter from the ionosphere will, for equilibrium conditions, show two symmetric ion‐acoustic lines, one for each direction of wave propagation. Many observations, from the EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) for instance, demonstrate that the symmetry of this ion line can be broken. An enhanced, nonthermal, level of fluctuations, i.e., Naturally Enhanced Ion‐Acoustic Lines (NEIALs) might be observed. Several models have been proposed for explaining these naturally enhanced lines. Here, we consider one of these, suggesting that decay of electron beam excited Langmuir waves gives rise to enhanced asymmetric ion lines in the ionosphere. We use a weak‐turbulence approximation, and identify crucial parameters for Langmuir decay processes to be effective in generating the observed signals.

Nonlinear wave interactions as a model for naturally enhanced ion acoustic lines in the ionosphere