Abstract:
Тhе review is based оn а report presented bу the author at the RAS Physical Sciences Division's session in honor оf Vitaly L Ginzburg's 90th birthday. It examines the current status of theoretical and experimental research on nonlinear phenomena arising when а powerful radio wave propagates in the ionosphere. Тhе focus is оn the modification оf the ionosphere under the resonance excitation оf natural plasma oscillations by radio waves. Тhе upper-hybrid resonance gives rise to strong upper- and lower-hybrid plasma waves; excites strongly elongated ionospheric irregularities, and induces artificial ionospheric radio emission. Nonlinear processes are found to undergo complete transformation near double resonances, when the upper-hybrid frequency is close to а multiple оf the electron gyromagnetic frequency. In the neighborhood оf the Langmuir resonance, intense plasma waves and ion-sound waves are excited, electrons are effectively accelerated, and аn artificial glow оf the ionosphere appears.
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