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A previously developed model of the high-latitude ionosphere is used to calculate the distribution of the ionospheric parameters in the polar region. A specific method for specifying input parameters of the mathematical model, using the experimental data obtained by the method of satellite radio tomography, is used in this case. The spatial distributions of the ionospheric parameters characterized by a complex inhomogeneous structure in the high-latitude region, calculated with the help of the mathematical model, are used to simulate the HF propagation along the meridionally oriented radio paths extending from middle to high latitudes. The method for improving the HF communication between a midlatitude transmitter and a polar-cap receiver is proposed.
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Original Russian Text © M.Yu. Andreev, G.I. Mingaleva, V.S. Mingalev, 2007, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 518–527.
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Andreev, M.Y., Mingaleva, G.I. & Mingalev, V.S. Numerical simulation of the structure of the high-latitude ionospheric F region during meridional HF propagation. Geomagn. Aeron. 47, 487–495 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793207040093
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