Observation of Wind-Produced Doppler Shifts in Tropospheric Scatter Propagation
| Autor: | D. H. Sargeant, G. T. Bergemann, H. S. Merrill, William P. Birkemeier, C. M. Beamer, D. W. Thomson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1968 |
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Physics
business.industry Condensed Matter Physics Geodesy Wind speed Tropospheric scatter Radiation pattern Azimuth Great circle symbols.namesake Optics symbols Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics General Earth and Planetary Sciences Fading Electrical and Electronic Engineering Antenna (radio) business Doppler effect |
| Zdroj: | Radio Science. 3:309-317 |
| ISSN: | 0048-6604 |
| Popis: | Persistent average frequency shifts obtained from phase data have been consistently observed on a 230-km closed-loop troposcatter circuit when the antennas were synchronously pointed off the great-circle azimuth. The magnitude of the “Doppler shift” systematically increases with the antenna pointing angle from the great circle. The sign of the Doppler shift reverses across the great circle and depends upon the direction of the crosspath wind simultaneously observed in the lower common volume. Average Doppler shift data are presented for several fixed-antenna-offset and antenna-beam-swinging experiments conducted under varied meteorological conditions. Observations are interpreted in terms of atmospheric “scatterers” drifting across the path at the average crosspath wind speed. A model based on phase geometry is derived for the average Doppler shift and for Doppler spectra in terms of the crosspath wind velocity, antenna patterns and propagation mechanism. It is concluded that Doppler frequencies observed with a bistatic transhorizon microwave system depend primarily upon crosspath wind speed and the prevailing atmospheric structure. Crosspath motions thus appear to be an effective source of interference fading in tropospheric transhorizon propagation. |
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