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Author(s) -
Gossard Earl E.,
Yeh K. C.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1029/rs015i002p00147
Subject(s) - atmosphere (unit) , radar , bistatic radar , remote sensing , incoherent scatter , ionosphere , meteor (satellite) , meteorology , ionosonde , geology , environmental science , computer science , radar imaging , geophysics , physics , telecommunications , electron density , quantum mechanics , electron
Radars have had a long and illustrious history in the investigation of the atmosphere. Beginning with verification of the existence of the ionosphere in the mid‐1920's [ Appleton and Barnett , 1925; Breit and Tuve , 1926], radars have been operated in monostatic and bistatic modes to probe the atmosphere and have acquired names such as bottomside or topside ionosonde, meteor radar, auroral radar, meteorological radar, incoherent scatter radar, etc. It is therefore remarkable that such an old technique would warrant a special issue of Radio Science in 1980. The reason seems to be that the scientific community was slow to recognize and exploit the potential of radar for sensing the nonionized clear atmosphere.