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THE measurement of ‘drift’ in the ionosphere using the changes of signal strength of a radio wave reflected nearly vertically from the ionosphere and received by three antennae a fixed distance apart1 has often been difficult to interpret, and different methods of analysis appear to give different results. In an attempt to resolve some of these discrepancies it was decided to test the hypothesis that the scattering irregularities of electron density2 were due to hydrodynamic waves travelling horizontally in the ionosphere, rather than the movement being a drift of the medium as a whole.
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JONES, D., MAUDE, A. Evidence for Wave Motions in the E-Region in the Ionosphere. Nature 206, 177–179 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206177b0
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