First observations of the McMurdo–South Pole oblique ionospheric HF channel

Chartier, Alex T.; Vierinen, Juha; Jee, Geonhwa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3023-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3023-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-13-3023-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 6

Research article

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09 Jun 2020

Research article |

| 09 Jun 2020

First observations of the McMurdo–South Pole oblique ionospheric HF channel

Alex T. Chartier, Juha Vierinen, and Geonhwa Jee

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of amt-2020-2: “First Observations of the McMurdo-South Pole Ionospheric HF Channel”', Anonymous Referee #1, 27 Feb 2020
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer RC1', Alex Chartier, 06 Mar 2020
RC2: 'Anonymous Referee #2', Anonymous Referee #2, 30 Mar 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer #2', Alex Chartier, 31 Mar 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Alex Chartier on behalf of the Authors (31 Mar 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Apr 2020) by Jorge Luis Chau

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (17 Apr 2020)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (30 Apr 2020)

ED: Publish as is (30 Apr 2020) by Jorge Luis Chau

Short summary

A novel oblique ionospheric radio sounder has been developed and demonstrated in Antarctica. The transmitter was located at McMurdo and the receiver at the South Pole (1356 km great-circle path). The system cycled through 12 frequencies each minute and recorded signal time of flight, intensity, and Doppler. This allowed for the estimation of peak ionospheric electron density, which validated well against independent data from the nearby Jang Bogo ionosonde and GPS TEC.