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SPACE WEATHER,
VOL. 4,
S02C04,
doi:10.1029/2005SW000144,
2006
Convective Ionospheric Storms: A Major Space Weather Problem
Michael C. Kelley
Cornell University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A
Jonathan J. Makela
University of Illinois, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, IL, U.S.A.
Odile de la Beaujardiére
Boston University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Hanscom AFB, MA, U.S.A.
Abstract
Some fifty years into the Space Age, technical societies are deeply committed to the utilization of space. For the military,
space is the ultimate high ground from which a variety of surveillance, communications, and navigation systems operate. For
industry, the communications and positional/navigational opportunities using space-based systems are virtually unlimited.
However, when the plasma between the satellite and the receiver is turbulent, satellite signals scintillate in a manner analogous
to the twinkling of starlight as it traverses the turbulent atmosphere, and both communication and navigation systems can
be seriously affected.
Published 7
February
2006.
Keywords: Equatorial spread F, scintillations, satellite instrumentation.
Index Terms: 2415 Ionosphere: Equatorial ionosphere; 2431 Ionosphere: Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions (2736); 2439 Ionosphere: Ionospheric irregularities; 2441 Ionosphere: Ionospheric storms (7949).
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Citation: Kelley, M. C., J. J. Makela, and O. de la Beaujardiére
(2006),
Convective Ionospheric Storms: A Major Space Weather Problem,
Space Weather,
4,
S02C04,
doi:10.1029/2005SW000144.
Copyright 2006 by the American Geophysical Union.
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