P. K. Chauhan, Akhilesh Kumar, V. Pratap, S. Prajapati, Ashutosh Kumar Singh
{"title":"Wintertime variation of $mathbf{PM}_{mathbf{10}}, mathbf{PM}_{mathbf{2}.mathbf{5}}$, Black Carbon, and Aerosol Optical Depth over Varanasi","authors":"P. K. Chauhan, Akhilesh Kumar, V. Pratap, S. Prajapati, Ashutosh Kumar Singh","doi":"10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118511","url":null,"abstract":"Black Carbon (BC) and Particulate Matter $(text{PM}_{10}$ and $text{PM}_{2.5})$ are measured over Varanasi during the winter season. They are the most crucial atmospheric aerosols that play an important role in Earth's radiation budget by absorbing solar and terrestrial radiation. Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) is the measure of extinction of incoming solar radiation by air particles distributed in a vertical column of the atmosphere. The influence of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is observed on the diurnal variation of BC, PM10, and $text{PM}_{2.5}$. The concentration of these parameters was high during morning and evening hours when ABL is lying near the ground. Maximum and minimum concentrations of PM10 and $text{PM}_{2.5}$ are found to be in November and February. Burning firecrackers during Diwali in November could be the reason for high aerosol loading. Higher BC concentration is measured in January due to increased anthropogenic activities and biomass burning. AOD at 500 nm is found to be higher in December and lower in February. The higher value of AOD at a shorter wavelength suggests the dominance of fine mode particles.","PeriodicalId":229743,"journal":{"name":"2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS)","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123370942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assessment of Surface Energy Fluxes variation with Land Cover Parameters using LandSat Satellite data","authors":"Ruchi Bala, V. Yadav, D. Kumar, R. Prasad","doi":"10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118439","url":null,"abstract":"The urban heat island (UHI) is formed due to higher local temperatures in urban areas than surrounding rural areas. Impervious surfaces and vegetation are the two major land covers that have the capability to modify energy fluxes. The Latent Heat flux, Sensible Heat Flux and the Ground Heat flux was obtained for Bangalore city and ratio of fluxes to net radiation was calculated. The mean of ratio of each flux to net radiation was calculated for each land cover and found that the urban and bare soil region shows higher values of $mathrm{G}/mathrm{R}_{mathrm{n}}$ as compared to the vegetated land covers. The urban land cover showed higher values of $mathrm{H}/mathrm{R}_{mathrm{n}}$ as compared to the natural land covers and the vegetation and waterbody showed higher values of $text{LE}/mathrm{R}_{mathrm{n}}$ than other land covers. The relation of sensible heat flux with imperviousness and latent heat flux with vegetation was determined. The plot of $mathrm{H}/mathrm{R}_{mathrm{n}}$ with ISF and $text{LE}/mathrm{R}_{mathrm{n}}$ with NDVI, both showed good positive relation.","PeriodicalId":229743,"journal":{"name":"2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121713933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drastic Change in the Eclipse Cutoff Frequency for PSR J1544+4937 Observed with the GMRT","authors":"Sangita Kumari, B. Bhattacharyya","doi":"10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118502","url":null,"abstract":"We report a very drastic change in the eclipse cut-off frequency for the black widow pulsar J1544+4937. Majority of such systems often exhibit relatively long duration (~ 15%) radio eclipses caused by ablated material from the companion stars. The eclipse observed in such systems are frequency dependent and are more pronounced at lower frequencies (< 1.5 MHz). The eclipse cutoff frequency has changed from 345 MHz to > 750 MHz. Such an intense change in the eclipse cutoff frequency is not observed and reported for any other spider MSPs before. This shows that PSR J1544+4937 is clearly undergoing some kind of transition, where the eclipse environment is dynamically evolving. Follow-up observations showed that the system is coming back to its normal state, where the eclipse cutoff frequency is < 550 MHz. This change in the eclipse cut-off frequency could depict changes of the magnetic field and drastic change in electron density in the eclipse region.","PeriodicalId":229743,"journal":{"name":"2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122132427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Sectorization Technique in Conventional Dielectric Resonators for Circular Polarization","authors":"R. Chowdhury, R. Chaudhary","doi":"10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118556","url":null,"abstract":"The analysis presented in this article is based on the investigation of circular polarization (CP) performance in Dielectric Resonator Antennas (DRA) by use of their geometrical dimensions with simple probe feeding technique. The operating principle is based on detuning of degenerate modes and proper optimization of the sector angle $(beta)$ which provides an extra context for better optimization of antenna performance as compared to conventional geometries. Sectorization method has been implemented for the first time in DRA technology for circular polarization analysis and corresponding physics is developed. The property of degenerate modes in DRA geometry has been explored for CP generation","PeriodicalId":229743,"journal":{"name":"2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128385634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seasonal day-night variation of ozone $(mathbf{O}_{mathbf{3}})$ in an eastern urban site, Bhubaneswar and its association with precursors ($mathbf{NO}_{mathbf{x}}$ and NMHC): More sensitivity of $mathbf{O}_{mathbf{3}}$ to NMHC than $mathbf{NO}_{mathbf{x}}$","authors":"M. Mishra, T. Das, R. Boopathy","doi":"10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118538","url":null,"abstract":"The study reports on the relationships between surface ozone $(mathrm{O}_{3})$ and its principal precursors, nitrogen oxides $(text{NO}_{mathrm{x}})$ and non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs), due to their scientific importance, in addition to the implementation of policies aimed at reducing $mathrm{O}_{3}$ pollution. Measurements and analyses of the mentioned trace gases revealed correlations between them in a city in Eastern India, Bhubaneswar, from October 2021 to May 2022. It demonstrates sensitivity to NMHCs when compared to $text{NO}_{mathrm{x}}$ as a whole. The $text{NMHC} /text{NO}_{mathrm{x}}$ ratios confirm NMHC dominance in pre-winter and winter, while $text{NO}_{mathrm{x}}$ dominance is confirmed in summer (post-winter). A multivariate regression approach was also utilised to develop a model to predict $mathrm{O}_{3}$ concentrations based on precursor concentrations, which offers significant information on the precursors ($text{NO}_{mathrm{x}}$ and NMHCs) that contribute to $mathrm{O}_{3}$ synthesis. The slope and intercept derived from the prediction model indicatethat, while these precursors can explain a significant portion of the concentration, there are other unidentified contributions from other precursors and some mysterious chemical activities going on (especially at night) that has remained unrevealed. Thus, the study emphasizes the necessity of identifying additional precursors via other methodologies such as remote sensing and limiting NMHC emissions, which could play a crucial role in both understanding and lowering ground-level ozone in the current scenario.","PeriodicalId":229743,"journal":{"name":"2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS)","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128697047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vinoj V S, Biju V S, M. Basim, A. Ot, C. R. Pillai, S. Sasikumar
{"title":"Signal Strength Variations and Data Bit Synchronization Issues of High Dynamic NavIC/GPS Receiver During Ascent Phase of a Launch Vehicle Trajectory","authors":"Vinoj V S, Biju V S, M. Basim, A. Ot, C. R. Pillai, S. Sasikumar","doi":"10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118481","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most important and challenging part of NavIC/GPS receiver design is the tracking loop realization. NavIC/GPS data bit identification is the terminal phase of tracking loop algorithm. Basic time synchronization between the particular satellite time which is tracked by a channel and receiver local time is achieved using the data bit boundary identification. The probability of inducing error in navigation solution is more if low elevation/low CNDR satellites signal is used for navigation computation. Normally high dynamic GNSS receivers use elevation limit to avoid low elevation satellites, but this may not be always applicable when the receiver is employed in launch vehicles which is having different maneuvers during the trajectory. In such cases when the receiver tracks low elevation satellites, there can be noise induced errors, which lead to misinterpretation of data bits leading to incorrect time synchronization for that particular channel. This leads to error in transmit time computation and further it will affect the position solution as well. The signal strength analysis of a typical NavIC/GPS receiver during the ascent phase of launch vehicle is studied and the possibility of bit synchronization issues during the flight/during ground testing is brought out and mitigation techniques are presented in this paper.","PeriodicalId":229743,"journal":{"name":"2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125109752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Kasat, Aakanksha Avnish Bhardwajan, Suresh Dakkumalla, T. Ganesh, F. B. Singh, M. R. Raghavendra
{"title":"Effect of Doppler Collision in Satellite navigation systems","authors":"N. Kasat, Aakanksha Avnish Bhardwajan, Suresh Dakkumalla, T. Ganesh, F. B. Singh, M. R. Raghavendra","doi":"10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118492","url":null,"abstract":"Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC or IRNSS) is the Indian regional satellite navigation system. The constellation consists of 7 GSO satellites. Doppler Collision is a specific characteristic experienced by the receiver when the difference between the carrier doppler frequencies of the two satellite signals is within the code tracking loop bandwidth of the receiver [1], [2]. Although this situation is not too frequent in MEO based GNSS, it happens quite frequently in NavIC (especially GEO satellites) and SBAS satellites given their apparent stationary nature [4]. This paper provides the details of experiment simulated to study the effect of Doppler collision in estimated user position using NavIC satellites.","PeriodicalId":229743,"journal":{"name":"2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS)","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117341773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Pallamraju, S. Mandal, S. Saha, S. Kumar, T. Pant
{"title":"New Insights on the Precursors to the Onset of Equatorial Plasma Irregularity Generation","authors":"D. Pallamraju, S. Mandal, S. Saha, S. Kumar, T. Pant","doi":"10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118477","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents some new findings in terms of the vertical propagation speeds of gravity waves in the daytime as possible precursors to the ESF. These findings have resulted from a new approach of analyzing the radiowave reflections from the ionosphere to obtain the information of gravity waves in the daytime. Also, the typical horizontal gravity wave scale sizes in the daytime that could potentially offer the required perturbation for the ESF generation are also presented.","PeriodicalId":229743,"journal":{"name":"2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS)","volume":"224 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117005937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Surface Crack Characterization of Aluminium Specimen using Passive Wireless RFID based Tag Antenna Sensor","authors":"Setti Suresh, G. Chakaravarthi","doi":"10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118559","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based tag antenna sensor for surface crack characterization of an aluminium alloy 6061 T6 grade specimen. Tag antenna was optimised using HFSS®, Ansys Inc., USA software. The designed tag is simulated on the specimen with various crack dimensions and oreintations. When the crack depth is varied from 0 to 1 mm, the observed average absolute change in resonant frequency $(vert Delta mathrm{f}_{mathrm{r}}vert )$ for vertical, horizontal, and diagonal orientation cracks is 2.19 MHz, 0.39 MHz, and 1.05 MHz, respectively. Similarly, for varying crack depths from 1mm to 6mm, the observed frequencies are 10.21 MHz, 0.6 MHz, and 4.5 MHz, respectively. Simulation results show that the proposed sensor is sensitive to submillimeter cracks, enabling the detection of surface cracks at an early stage.","PeriodicalId":229743,"journal":{"name":"2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128311475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Slathia, Second Rajneet Kaur, Third Sunidhi Singla, Fourth Manveet Kaur, fifth N. S. Saini
{"title":"Forced KdV equation in magnetorotating electron-positron-ion plasmas","authors":"G. Slathia, Second Rajneet Kaur, Third Sunidhi Singla, Fourth Manveet Kaur, fifth N. S. Saini","doi":"10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSI-RCRS56822.2022.10118445","url":null,"abstract":"In this investigation, the study of electron acoustic solitary waves (EASWs) in an electron-positron-ion (e-p-i) magnetoplasma comprising of inertial cold electrons, superthermally distributed hot positrons and inertialess electrons have been illustrated in the presence of stationary positive ions. The forced Korteweg-de Vries (fKdV) equation is derived by employing the reductive perturbation method to study the characteristic properties of electron acoustic solitary structures. The effect of various physical plasma parameters namely, the temperature ratio, the strength of the magnetic field, superthermality and density of charged particles have been quantitatively analysed. The combined impact of these parameters greatly enhance the characteristics of the solitary structures. It is remarked that the findings of the present investigation maybe of great importance to explore the underlying properties of various types of nonlinear structures in auroral regions, pulsars, Van Allen radiation belts etc.","PeriodicalId":229743,"journal":{"name":"2022 URSI Regional Conference on Radio Science (USRI-RCRS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122450391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}