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Standing wave pattern of HF radio waves in the ionospheric reflection region: 2. Applications
Author(s) -
Lundborg Bengt,
Thidé Bo
Publication year - 1986
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/rs021i003p00486
Subject(s) - ionosphere , reflection (computer programming) , earth's magnetic field , physics , radio wave , geophysics , high frequency , computational physics , ionospheric reflection , field (mathematics) , wave propagation , point (geometry) , geology , ionospheric heater , magnetic field , optics , mathematics , geometry , computer science , programming language , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics
General analytical formulas derived within a uniform approximation in a previous paper by the present authors are utilized for determining the wave pattern of a vertically propagating HF wave that is totally or partially reflected from the ionosphere. The full three‐dimensional wave is calculated accurately, also at the reflection point. Parameter values typical of ionospheric modification experiments at Arecibo and Tromsø are chosen. The influence of the geomagnetic field and collisions are properly taken into account but nonlinear and coupling effects are excluded. It is shown that the geomagnetic field affects the wave pattern strongly, especially in the Tromsø case, and leads to a very high swelling in the first wave maximum below the reflection point.