Open AccessSymposium highlights results from HF interaction experiments
Author(s) -
Rietveld Michael T.,
Isham Brett
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/eo082i025p00273-02
Subject(s) - ionosphere , high frequency , incoherent scatter , space physics , physics , plasma , radio wave , space science , computational physics , geophysics , astronomy , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics
The high‐power, high‐frequency (HF) ionospheric radio facility in Tromsø, Norway is used to conduct fundamental research in plasma physics, ionospheric physics, and geophysics. This facility is making possible new discoveries in the fields of space plasma physics and upper atmospheric physics. Built by the Max‐Planck Institut fur Aeronomie and inaugurated on September 12, 1980, it was purposely located next to the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) incoherent scatter radars at 931 MHz and 224 MHz. These are the primary diagnostic instruments of the perturbations produced in the ionospheric plasma by the powerful HF radio waves [ Rietveld et al. , 1993].