Diagnosing radio plasma heating in the polar summer mesosphere using cross modulation: Theory and observations
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Diagnosing radio plasma heating in the polar summer mesosphere using cross modulation: Theory and observations
[1] Radio heating of the free electrons in the mesosphere is an important diagnostic technique for the phenomenon of polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE). Due to a lack of suitable observations, the heating must be modeled when studying its effect on PMSE. In order to try to validate these models, the cross‐modulation technique was implemented at the EISCAT facility near Tromsø, Norway to comp...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2010ja015379