• The Case for Combining a Large Low‐Band Very High Frequency Transmitter With Multiple Receiving Arrays for Geospace Research: A Geospace Radar 

      Hysell, David; Chau, Jorge Luis; Coles, William A; Milla, Marco; Obenberger, Kenneth; Vierinen, Juha (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-09)
      We argue that combining a high‐power, large‐aperture radar transmitter with several large‐aperture receiving arrays to make a geospace radar—a radar capable of probing near‐Earth space from the upper troposphere through to the solar corona—would transform geospace research. We review the emergence of incoherent scatter radar in the 1960s as an agent that unified early, pioneering research in geospace ...
    • Radar observations of thermal plasma oscillations in the ionosphere 

      Vierinen, Juha; Gustavsson, Björn Johan; Hysell, David; Sulzer, M.; Perillat, Phil; Kudeki, Erhan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-02)
      Incoherent scatter radar observations of ionospheric plasmas rely on echoes from electron density fluctuations with properties governed by the dispersion relations for ion acoustic and Langmuir waves. Radar observations of echoes associated with Langmuir waves (plasma lines) from thermal plasma are weak, and only a few near‐thermal level measurements have been reported. Plasma line echoes are typically ...