First observations of the McMurdo–South Pole oblique ionospheric HF channel

Chartier, Alex T.; Vierinen, Juha; Jee, Geonhwa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3023-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3023-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3023-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

Research article

|

09 Jun 2020

Research article |

| 09 Jun 2020

First observations of the McMurdo–South Pole oblique ionospheric HF channel

Alex T. Chartier, Juha Vierinen, and Geonhwa Jee

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3023-2020-supplement

Data sets

Data for "First Observations of the McMurdo-South Pole Ionospheric HF Channel" A. T. Chartier https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3478267

sounder A. T. Chartier https://github.com/alexchartier/sounder

Model code and software

alexchartier/sounder: AMT paper release A. T. Chartier https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3627025

Short summary

A novel oblique ionospheric radio sounder has been developed and demonstrated in Antarctica. The transmitter was located at McMurdo and the receiver at the South Pole (1356 km great-circle path). The system cycled through 12 frequencies each minute and recorded signal time of flight, intensity, and Doppler. This allowed for the estimation of peak ionospheric electron density, which validated well against independent data from the nearby Jang Bogo ionosonde and GPS TEC.