A statistical assessment of synoptic D-region partial reflection data
| Autor: | H.A. von Biel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
| Předmět: |
Atmospheric Science
education.field_of_study Rayleigh distribution Population Mathematical analysis General Engineering Diffuse sky radiation Estimator Standard deviation symbols.namesake Geophysics Amplitude Statistics symbols General Earth and Planetary Sciences Rayleigh scattering education Rice distribution General Environmental Science Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics. 43:225-230 |
| ISSN: | 0021-9169 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0021-9169(81)90043-x |
| Popis: | An estimator is derived which depends only on the specular-to-scattered power ratio in a Rice distribution. It is shown how this estimator may be deduced from experimental amplitude distributions and how to assess the probable error associated with it when the data consist of a limited number of independent samples. The method is then applied to data obtained from synoptic observations of D -region partial reflections. The results of this investigation indicated that D -region amplitude distributions, when assessed over a long time interval, exhibit all the characteristics which would be expected if they were random samples drawn from a Rayleigh distributed parent population. |
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