[Elecraft] [OT] Thunder storms affect Ionosphere study

[Bill Frantz]

David Perlman writes in the San Francisco Chronicle: New 
satellite to study how Earth storms impact space.

A group of University of California astronomers with the help of 
NASA grant are launching a satellite in 2017 to study the 
details of how large thunder storms, particularly in the tropics 
can drive thermal waves upward and cause major temperature 
changes in the ionosphere.

My own take on this story is that this study may provide a new 
window on how ionospheric propagation can be changed by 
tropospheric storms and affect radio communication. YMMV.

The full article may be available at SFGate.com, but I'm not 
online now to chase it down.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

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