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A stochastic model of the F-spread phenomenon in the ionosphere

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A stochastic model of the F-spread phenomenon in the ionosphere is proposed. The model is based on the idea that under F-spred conditions the electron-density distribution in the F-region of the ionosphere is a random process that is locally stationary in space and time and assumes multiple-ray propagation of short waves with independent phase fluctuations in individual rays. Some peculiarities of F-spred ionograms are analyzed. The problem of intensity fluctuations of short radiowaves during F-spred in the ionosphere is considered.

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Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 38, No. 12, pp. 1227–1240, December, 1995.

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Alimov, V.A., Erukhimov, L.M. A stochastic model of the F-spread phenomenon in the ionosphere. Radiophys Quantum Electron 38, 801–810 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01039986

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