Title
A multistatic HF beacon network for ionospheric specification in the Peruvian sector
Date Issued
01 May 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Jicamarca Radio Observatory
Publisher(s)
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Abstract
A small network of HF beacon transmitters and receivers has been deployed in Peru for specifying the F region ionosphere in the sector. The effort is motivated by ionospheric disturbances associated with equatorial spread F (ESF) and specifically disturbances arising under inauspicious conditions for ESF as determined by numerical simulations. The beacons operate at dual frequencies (2.72 and 3.64 MHz). They are CW but incorporate pseudorandom noise (PRN) coding so that the group delays of the links can be measured. Other observables are power, Doppler shift, bearing, and polarization. A transmitter is currently deployed at Ancon (11°46'37''S, 77°09'1''W, 51 m above sea level (asl)), while receivers are at Jicamarca (11°57'5.8''S, 76°52'27''W, 510 m asl) and Huancayo (12°02'30''S, 75°19'15''W, 3315 m asl). An algorithm for inverting the beacon data combined with electron density profiles from Jicamarca is described. Data and representative solutions from an experimental campaign held in August 2015 are presented and evaluated.
Start page
392
End page
401
Volume
51
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84992312304
PubMed ID
Source
Radio Science
ISSN of the container
00486604
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by award FA9550-12-1-0462 from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to Cornell University. The Jicamarca Radio Observatory is a facility of the Instituto Geofisíco del Perú operated with support from NSF award AGS-1433968 through Cornell. The help of the staff is much appreciated. Data used for this publication are available through the Madrigal database.
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