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The method for estimating the behavior of the ionospheric irregularity motion vector in the artificially disturbed HF ionospheric region has been proposed, and this behavior has been analyzed based on the simultaneous Doppler observations performed on several paths using the method of bi-static backscatter of diagnostic HF signals by small-scale artificial ionospheric irregularities. The Doppler measurements were performed during the modification of the auroral ionosphere by powerful HF radiowaves emitted by the EISCAT heating facility (Tromsø, Norway). It has been obtained that the dynamics of the ionospheric irregularity directions in the F region, calculated based on the Doppler measurements of the total vector of the ionospheric irregularity velocity above the Tromsø EISCAT radar at a frequency of 931 MHz, is in satisfactory agreement with such calculations performed using the three-position method.
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Original Russian Text © T.D. Borisova, N.F. Blagoveshchenskaya, V.A. Kornienko, M. T. Rietveld, 2007, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2007, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 80–89.
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Borisova, T.D., Blagoveshchenskaya, N.F., Kornienko, V.A. et al. Determining the ionospheric irregularity velocity vector based on doppler measurements in the artificially modified F 2 region of the polar ionosphere. Geomagn. Aeron. 47, 76–84 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793207010124
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