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Dowden & Adams 1989
Dowden, R.L. and Adams, C.D.D. (1989). Phase and amplitude perturbations on the NWC signal at Dunedin from lightning-induced electron precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research 94: doi: 10.1029/88JA03699. issn: 0148-0227.

Localized ionospheric depressions near the NWC-Dunedin great circle path diffract echoes which interfere with the direct signal at the Dunedin receiver to produce perturbations in phase and amplitude. The statistics both of these perturbations and of the echo phasors (echo magnitude and echo phase) which can be deduced from them are studied here. From these statistics it is deduced that echo paths must be frequently more than a wavelength (14 km) longer than the direct path so that many of the diffracting centers (electron precipitation beams) must be laterally displaced up to 200 km from the direct path. Since echo signals from these must be diffracted through angles of ~10¿, ionization enhancements produced by electron precipitation must frequently have lateral (cross-path) dimensions of less than 50 km, with some as narrow as 25 km. The largest perturbation magnitudes seem to require ionization enhancement of longitudinal (parallel to path) dimensions of ~300 km. Electron precipitation confined to thin L-shells could produce such enhancements for the NWC-Dunedin path. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1989

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Magnetospheric Physics, Energetic particles, precipitating, Magnetospheric Physics, Magnetosphere/ionosphere interactions, Radio Science, Radio wave propagation, Radio Science, Remote sensing
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Journal of Geophysical Research
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