We show the results of the first experimental studies of the multifractal structure of the developed artificial ionospheric turbulence. As a result of the special multifractal analysis of the recorded amplitudes of signals from the orbital satellites, which were obtained during the experiments on radio tomography of the irregularities excited in the ionosphere by the powerful mid-latitude heating facility “Sura,” it is found that the characteristic multifractal structure of these records is caused by the nonuniform spatial distribution of the small-scale fluctuations of the electron number density in the artificial irregularities of the ionospheric plasma. Comparative analysis is performed for the multifractal spectra of fluctuations of both the amplitudes and energies of signals received from the orbital satellites upon radio transmission probing of the region of artificial ionospheric turbulence by these signals at three observation points located near the “Sura” heating facility and spaced apart to a distance of about 100–150 km.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 51, No. 11, pp. 970–976, November 2008.
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Alimov, V.A., Vybornov, F.I., Myasnikov, E.N. et al. Fractal structure of artificial ionospheric turbulence. Radiophys Quantum El 51, 874–879 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-009-9094-2
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