A Problem-Solving Workbook on Ionospheric and Space Physics — Rezy Pradipta

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Contents

Preface ix


Part I Ionospheric and Space Phenomena 1

1 Chapman Theory of Ionospheric Layer Formation 3
Further Reading 6

2 Magnetic Fields Resulting from the
Equatorial Electrojet Current 7
Further Reading 11

3 Phase and Group Velocities of Acoustic-
Gravity Waves 13
Further Reading 18

4 Wind Shear, Sporadic-E Layer, and Kelvin-
Helmholtz Instability 19
Further Reading 27

5 Brunt-Vaisala Frequency and
Convective Instability 29
Further Reading 33

6 Whistler Waves in the Ionosphere
and Magnetosphere 35
Further Reading 38

7 Radio Wave Absorption in the D-
Region Ionosphere 39
Further Reading 43

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8 The Sun is Down, the Equatorial Plasma Bubbles
are Up 45
Further Reading 51

9 Drunken Forest in Space: Why Do the
Bubbles Tilt? 53
Further Reading 60

10 Linking Two Hemispheres: Geomagnetic
Field Conjugacy 61
Further Reading 64

11 Equatorial Plasma Bubbles Revisited 65
Further Reading 73


Part II Diagnostic Instruments and Techniques 75

12 Ionosonde: Sensing Ionospheric Plasmas from
the Ground 77
Further Reading 92

13 Fundamentals of GPS Total Electron Content
(TEC) Measurements 93
Further Reading 101

14 Barker Codes and Radar Pulse Compression 103
Further Reading 110

15 Abel Inversion of Ionosonde Trace Data 111
Further Reading 115

16 Direction-Scan Radar and Deconvolution 117
Further Reading 122

17 Bragg Scattering and Ionospheric Radars 123
Further Reading 128

18 Witchcraft: Poor Man’s Abel Inversion
of Ionograms 129
Further Reading 135