| Abstract: | We consider the features of the modification of the equatorial ionosphere by high-power radiowaves. A possibility for creating
strong (compared to mid-latitude) quasi-periodic ionospheric F-layer irregularities, formed by the field of the high-power
standing wave, producing artificial bubbles, and influencing the natural equatorial “bubbles” is discussed. The peculiarities
of exciting the striction and thermal parametric instabilities in the equatorial ionosphere are considered. The problem of
the modulation of the equatorial current jet is briefly discussed.
Radiophysical Research Institute, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia; Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala Division, Uppsala,
Sweden. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 40, Nos. 1–2, pp. 250–262, January–February,
1997. |
