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A probable cause of variability in the spectral index of ionospheric irregularities is discussed, based on the ability of intense longitudinal plasma waves to generate density disturbances with steep fronts. The results are experimentally confirmed.
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Institute of Space Research, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 131–135, February, 1991.
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Ozerov, V.D., Gdalevich, G.L., Vsekhsvyatskaya, I.S. et al. Probable mechanism of change in the spectral index of ionospheric irregularities. Radiophys Quantum Electron 34, 114–119 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01045516
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