History of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN)-I: pre-SuperDARN developments in high frequency radar technology for ionospheric research and selected scientific results

<p>Part I of this history describes the motivations for developing radars in the high frequency (HF) band to study plasma density irregularities in the F region of the auroral zone and polar cap ionospheres. French and Swedish scientists were the first to use HF frequencies to study the Dopple...

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Main Author: R. A. Greenwald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2021-05-01
Series:History of Geo- and Space Sciences
Online Access:https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/12/77/2021/hgss-12-77-2021.pdf