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Application of non-Maxwellian distribution for the ion velocity in calculation of incoherent scattering spectra in high-latitude ionosphere

XUE Kun1;GUO Li-xin1;WU Jian2;XU Bin1
  

  1. (1. School of Science, Xidian Univ., Xi’an 710071, China;
    2. National Key Lab. of Electromagnetic Environment, China Research Inst. of Radiowave Propagation, Beijing 102206)
  • Received:2007-08-28 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-08-20 Published:2008-08-20
  • Contact: XUE Kun E-mail:xuekun914906@163.com

Abstract: It is found that distortions are produced for Maxwellian distribution of the ion velocity distribution due to a large convection electric field appearing in the high latitude region. In this paper, an analytical form of Non-Maxwellian ion velocity distribution in the line-of-sight direction is used. According to the incoherent scattering theory, the incoherent scattering spectral is derived and computed. This study shows that the analytical Non-Maxwellian distribution function can simplify the calculation of the incoherent scattering spectral and improve the velocity of computing incoherent scattering spectra.

Key words: incoherent radar spectra, non-Maxwellian distribution, ion velocity distribution function

CLC Number: 

  • TN011