During October 1994, a dual-frequency GPS receiver was operated in Alca⁁ntara, Brazil, at the same site where the Cornell University Portable Radar Interferometer (CUPRI) was performing spread-F measurements for an ongoing rocket campaign. We present data for two nights during which several spread-F plumes drifted through the field-of-view of CUPRI. Fluctuations in the total electron content (TEC) measured with the GPS receiver were correlated with those plumes. We define a roughness measure from a specialized high frequency filter. Plots of roughness in a magnetic longitude versus time space show initially low activity followed by regions of dramatic localized onsets and a slower subsequent decline. Features in the roughness image are well-correlated with plumes in the CUPRI backscatter power map.¿ 1997 American Geophysical Union