Positive ion composition measurements in the lower ionosphere during the 12 November 1966 solar eclipse /
Rocco S. Narcisi, A.D. Bailey, L. Della Lucca.
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English
- Published
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L.G. Hansom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1970.
- Summary
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Positive ion composition measurements in the D and E regions were performed on three rocket flights during the 1966 solar eclipse program conducted at Cassino, Brazil. The E region results showed that, at totality, NO+ and O2+ decreased in density while the ratio NO+/O2 increased. Long-lived meteoric ions appeared to be unaffected during the short period of the eclipse. A submerged layer of meteoric ions became prominent at totality when the molecular ion densities were smallest and produced a sporadic E layer. The D region results indicated that the decay in the water cluster ions at totality was probably less than a factor of four in the vicinity of 80 km. This work represents part of a continuing Air Force program to study lower ionospheric processes which affect communications. (Author).
- Note
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"This paper was presented at the Third Aeronomy Conference held at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, on 23-26 September 1968, and was published in Meteorological and Chemical Factors in D-Region Aeronomy - Record of the Third Aeronomy Conference (C. F. Sechrist, Jr., Editor), 1 April 1969."
"This research was supported by the Defense Atomic Support Agency."
"Aeronomy Laboratory Project 6687."
"AD0705540 (from http://www.dtic.mil)."
"April 1970."
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v, 9 pages :
illustrations ;
28 cm.
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