First Detection of the Enigmatic Low Latitude 150-km Echoes in the UHF Band,Geophysical Research Letters

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First Detection of the Enigmatic Low Latitude 150-km Echoes in the UHF Band
Geophysical Research Letters ( IF 4.6 ) Pub Date : 2024-10-01 , DOI: 10.1029/2024gl110344
Xinan Yue, Junyi Wang, Yonghui Wang, Yihui Cai, Feng Ding, Ning Zhang, Mingyuan Li, Baiqi Ning, Jorge Luis Chau

Through applying a 4-MHz linear frequency modulation waveform, which has high range resolution and signal intensity, we successfully detected for the first time the ionospheric 150-km echo enhancement at 430–450 MHz of the Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF) band using the newly built Sanya Incoherent Scatter Radar (SYISR). The obtained low signal enhancement (less than 0.5 dB) explains why previous UHF experiments did not detect them. We also found that our measured fine structure shows a much wider forbidden region than previous results and covers a much larger altitudinal and local time region. In comparison with recent upper-hybrid instability theory and simulation, our results confirmed the predicted higher altitude occurrence, wider gaps between enhancements, the turn corner feature around sunrise, and perhaps the weak enhancement, which provide an independent evaluation of the newly proposed mechanism in UHF band. Future UHF experiments could further improve the physical understanding of 150-km echo phenomenon.

更新日期：2024-10-01

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