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THE existence of moving irregularities in ionospheric regions has been demonstrated by a number of workers using a wide variety of radio techniques1, and information regarding their properties is accumulating rapidly. The motions are frequently described in terms of ‘winds’; but, as has been repeatedly stressed, the observations need not imply any large-scale movement of the atmosphere. Indeed a number of fairly general considerations can be advanced in support of an alternative view, that a propagated wave-like disturbance is the cause. At the suggestion of Mr. J. A. Ratcliffe, I have begun a theoretical examination of the magneto-hydrodynamic effects involved in such an interpretation.
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HINES, C. Wave Hypothesis of Moving Irregularities in the Ionosphere. Nature 171, 980 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171980a0
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