Influence of Non-vertical Echoes to Ionogram Scaling
Result description
Digisonde DPS 4 replaced the older ionosonde IPS 42 KEL Aerospace in the Observatory Pruhonice in January 2004. Additional information about the wave polarization enables us to determine and to distinguish exactly between ordinary and extraordinary wavetraces on the ionogram records. This new ability basically changes scaling of the ionograms comparing to the ionograms obtained by classical ionosondes. Digisonde measurements show that in some cases the interpretation of ionograms based on classical ionospheric soundings may lead to the systematic errors, which affect classical ionograms interpretation. We demonstrate possible significant misinterpretations of the ionograms obtained using the classical equipment that is not able to distinguish betweenordinary and extraordinary modes and records only time of flight of the electromagnetic sounding pulse. We show the necessity to be careful in using an old ionosonde measurements and scaled data for further analysis.
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angličtina
Original language name
Influence of Non-vertical Echoes to Ionogram Scaling
Original language description
Digisonde DPS 4 replaced the older ionosonde IPS 42 KEL Aerospace in the Observatory Pruhonice in January 2004. Additional information about the wave polarization enables us to determine and to distinguish exactly between ordinary and extraordinary wavetraces on the ionogram records. This new ability basically changes scaling of the ionograms comparing to the ionograms obtained by classical ionosondes. Digisonde measurements show that in some cases the interpretation of ionograms based on classical ionospheric soundings may lead to the systematic errors, which affect classical ionograms interpretation. We demonstrate possible significant misinterpretations of the ionograms obtained using the classical equipment that is not able to distinguish betweenordinary and extraordinary modes and records only time of flight of the electromagnetic sounding pulse. We show the necessity to be careful in using an old ionosonde measurements and scaled data for further analysis.
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D - Article in proceedings
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DG - Atmospheric sciences, meteorology
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KJB300420904: Height-dependence of ionospheric drifts in region 90-150 km
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)
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2011
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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WDS'11 Proceedings of Contributed Papers: Part II: Physics of Plasmas and Ionized Media
ISBN
978-80-7378-185-9
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Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
67-72
Publisher name
MATFYZPRESS
Place of publication
Praha
Event location
Prague
Event date
May 31, 2011
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WRD - Celosvětová akce
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Result type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP
DG - Atmospheric sciences, meteorology
Year of implementation
2011