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Forte & Radicella 2004
Forte, B. and Radicella, S.M. (2004). Geometrical control of scintillation indices: What happens for GPS satellites. Radio Science 39: doi: 10.1029/2002RS002852. issn: 0048-6604.

Geometrical control of the effective outer scale imposed by detrend filtering, in the presence of highly anisotropic irregularities, explains differences between scintillation indices ratio at different locations. On the basis of weak scatter theory results, the behavior of the geometrical factor G, responsible for static effect of diffraction, is investigated in the case of GPS satellites. A simple comparison is made between GPS satellites and polar orbiting satellites used in the past for scintillation experiments to understand such differences in the behavior of scintillation indices measured by means of GPS scintillation monitors.

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Keywords
Ionosphere, Auroral ionosphere, Ionosphere, Ionospheric irregularities, Ionosphere, Wave propagation, Electromagnetics, Scattering and diffraction, scintillation, GPS satellites, weak scatter theory
Journal
Radio Science
Publisher
American Geophysical Union
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