Laboratory reproduction of Arecibo experimental results: HF wave-enhanced Langmuir waves

M. C. Lee; R. J. Riddolls; K. D. Vilece; N. E. Dalrymple; M. J. Rowlands; D. T. Moriarty; K. M. Groves; M. P. Sulzer; S. P. Kuo

doi:10.1029/96GL03886

Laboratory reproduction of Arecibo experimental results: HF wave-enhanced Langmuir waves

M. C. Lee, R. J. Riddolls, K. D. Vilece, N. E. Dalrymple, M. J. Rowlands, D. T. Moriarty, K. M. Groves, M. P. Sulzer, S. P. Kuo

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Laboratory experiments at MIT using the Versatile Toroidal Facility (VTF) have produced "cascading" and "frequency-upshifted" spectra of HF wave-enhanced Langmuir waves resembling the spectra observed in Arecibo experiments. The VTF experiments are well-explained using the source mechanism proposed by Kuo and Lee [1992] to interpret observed Langmuir wave spectra at Arecibo, Puerto Rico. This mechanism is referred to as a nonlinear scattering of parametric decay instability (PDI)-excited Langmuir waves by "pre-existing" lower hybrid waves to preferentially produce anti-Stokes (i.e., frequency-upshifted) Langmuir waves. Recent radar spectral observations of anti-Stokes Langmuir waves at Arecibo with improved range and time resolution [Sulzer and Fejer, 1994] can be reasonably understood in terms of this mechanism.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	115-118
Number of pages	4
Journal	Geophysical Research Letters
Volume	24
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/96GL03886
State	Published - 1997

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