Modification of the ionosphere during military actions in the Persian Gulf region
Abstract
Increases in ionospheric plasma density were observed at distances of several thousand kilometers from the region subjected to bombing in the Gulf War. Also observed was a tendency for this increase to be limited after about two weeks. The physical mechanism for these ionospheric changes appears to be connected not only with the cumulative effect of acoustic-gravity waves on the ionosphere but also with the contamination of the atmosphere with dust (metal particles and sand) and the consequent scattering of solar radiation by these particles.
- Publication:
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Akademiia Nauk SSSR Doklady
- Pub Date:
- 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991DoSSR.321.1168P
- Keywords:
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- Air Pollution;
- Earth Ionosphere;
- Military Operations;
- Plasma Density;
- Space Plasmas;
- Aerosols;
- Annual Variations;
- Gravity Waves;
- Persian Gulf;
- Sound Waves;
- Geophysics