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Noise level forecasts at 8-20MHz and their use for morphological studies of ionospheric absorption variations at EKB ISTP SB RAS radar

Oleg I. Berngardt
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In this paper, a method is described for using 8-20MHz noise absorption effect for realtime detecting radiowave absorption periods. The method is based on two empirical autoregression models of noise dynamics. The first (rough) prediction model is based on radar measurements of daily minimal noise dynamics averaged over 28-days with specially calculated weight coefficients. The second (fine) prediction model uses real-time scaling of rough model. The scaling is based on the comparison of this model with the experimental noise observations during previous 5 days. The models are based on the whole EKB ISTP SB RAS radar dataset (2013-2018). The rough model allows one to estimate the boundary beyond which the noise variations can be associated with absorption periods with a high degree of certainty. A joint analysis of simultaneous data on neighboring radar beams and at several frequencies reduces the detection errors, and allows to identify absorption events with a higher degree of confidence. Use of fine model allows to estimate absorption. The technique is validated by frequency dependence of absorption during two-frequency measurements. The found frequency dependence has an average exponent of the order of -1.5, which is in good agreement with the literature data and the data obtained earlier in analysis of solar X-ray flares. The use of the detection technique at EKB radar shows that most probable absorption over absorption events is about -0.65dB. Analysis of absorption of different amplitudes shows that low-intensity absorption events (0..-1.3dB) have slight local time dependence and mostly observed at north directions. For the storng absorption events (stronger than -1.3dB) the local time dynamics correlates well with noise level dynamics, and usually fills the whole radar field-of-view.

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Oleg I. Berngardt. 2019-10-19. Noise level forecasts at 8-20MHz and their use for morphological studies of ionospheric absorption variations at EKB ISTP SB RAS radar. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2020.04.005

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