Electroacoustic sounding of the atmosphere
Abstract
A new remote sensing method is proposed for diagnosing several electrical parameters in an atmosphere containing a high level of hydrodynamic turbulence or a developed small-scale structure. The method employs the scattering of a probing sound signal in the active regions of the atmosphere with the transformation of the sound signal into an electromagnetic one within the framework of electrohydrodynamics due to a noncompensated space charge. The spatial-temporal synchronism of acoustic waves and atmospheric inhomogeneities is essential to the method. A theoretical substantiation of the method is presented, and possible effects are evaluated.
- Publication:
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Radiofizika
- Pub Date:
- January 1992
- Bibcode:
- 1992RaF....35...15P
- Keywords:
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- Atmospheric Electricity;
- Atmospheric Sounding;
- Atmospheric Turbulence;
- Electroacoustics;
- Remote Sensing;
- Sound Waves;
- Aerosols;
- Atmospheric Scattering;
- Hydrodynamic Equations;
- Space Charge;
- Geophysics