Monitoring ionospheric scintillations and TEC at the Polish Polar Station on Spitsbergen: instrumentation and preliminary results

• Autorzy: Wernik A. , Pożoga M. , Grzesiak M. , Rokicki A. , Morawski M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

As a partial contribution to the International Polar Year, the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences has installed on the Polish Polar Station, located in the region of the Hornsund Bay in southern Spitsbergen, the equipment intended to monitor ionospheric scintillation and total electron content. We describe the equipment setup and the aims of the experiment. As an illustration of data analysis, we present the reconstruction of irregular structure of the ionosphere from the complex amplitude data, and the estimate of the form and drift of diffraction pattern based on the spaced receiver measurements.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

ionosphere; ionospheric scintillation; International Polar Year

• Wydawca: Instytut Geofizyki PAN ; Springer
• Czasopismo: Acta Geophysica
• Rocznik: 2008
• Tom: Vol. 56, no. 4
• Strony: 1129--1146
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 23 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Wernik A.

autor

Pożoga M.

autor

Grzesiak M.

autor

Rokicki A.

autor

Morawski M.

• Space Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland,

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