{"title":"Occurrence characteristics and causative mechanisms of daytime L-band scintillations over Dibrugarh, a station at the northern edge of EIA during 2010 – 2014","authors":"Barsha Dutta, B. R. Kalita, P. Bhuyan","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738571","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738571","url":null,"abstract":"Dibrugarh $( 27.5 ^{circ}mathrm {N} , 95 ^{circ}mathrm {E} , 43 ^{circ}$ dip), a location at the northern edge of EIA behaves as low as well as mid latitude location during nighttime. The nighttime L-band scintillations during ascending half of the solar cycle 24 (from January, 2010 to December, 2014) over Dibrugarh are found to be attributed to both equatorial irregularities and sporadic-E (Dutta et al., 2018a). The occurrence characteristics and possible mechanisms of daytime scintillations are investigated and presented in this paper at the same frequency for the same phase of solar cycle. The daytime amplitude scintillations are found to be associated with insignificant phase scintillations, TEC depletions, ROT and ROTI (Figure 1). This implies that no plasma bubbles are formed during daytime scintillations over the location. The association of insignificant TEC depletions/ ROT fluctuations during daytime scintillations were observed earlier at Guilin $( 25.3 ^{circ}mathrm {N} , 110.3 ^{circ}mathrm {E})mathrm {a}$ station near the northern crest of EIA (Zou and Wang, 2009; Zou, 2011) and at equatorial station University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysiya $( 2.6 ^{circ}mathrm {N} , 101.5 ^{circ}mathrm {E})($ Seif et al., 2012). They reported that daytime scintillations were caused by small scale irregularities in E-region.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126642826","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":"Plasma Wave Scenario in Comets","authors":"V. Yadav","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738542","url":null,"abstract":"Plasma waves have a universal presence in our solar system – planets, some of their satellites and interplanetary medium. The solar plasma environment of also supports the generation of plasma waves such as electron and ion cyclotron waves, the magnetosonic and Alfven waves which travels a long distance in heliosphere. The plasma environment around a comet is also capable of sustaining plasma waves, some of which are observed in comets Giacobini-Zinner, Halley, Grigg-Skjellerup and Borrelly. Some other comets such as Hyakutake and 67/PChuryumov-Gerasimenko are also supposed to sustain plasma waves but are yet to be observed. This paper presents a brief review on the plasma wave observations in cometary plasma environment carried out so far and some of the unresolved plasma wave issues in comets.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122549948","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}
A. Choudhary, S. Gokhale, A. Shukla, P. Kumar, A. K. Singh
{"title":"Variability in Emission Rate of Auto-Rickshaw Based on Real World Driving Profile: A Case Study in Guwahati City","authors":"A. Choudhary, S. Gokhale, A. Shukla, P. Kumar, A. K. Singh","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738673","url":null,"abstract":"Auto-rickshaw is an important para-transit mode of urban transportation in India. Cheap in fair but old technology and adulterated fuel quality make it emission intensive. Therefore, this study is aiming the emission assessment of most demanding mode of transportation. The study investigated the variation in the emission rate with respect to operating kinetics by real-world on-road emission measurements of driving profile. The video clips screening revealed that owing to smaller size auto-rickshaw negotiates the traffic, smaller streets and weaves through the mixed traffic which increases frequency of wear and tear engine and increases the emission rate. During peak hours up to 80% of time auto-rickshaw operates in speed 6–28 km/h and acceleration -1 to $1mathrm {m}/ mathrm {s}^{2}$, which subjected to higher frequency of stop-and–go pattern of traffic flow and therefore causing higher engine load, subjected to higher emission rate. Each pollutant showed different behavior for the same variations in speed and acceleration. The emission rates of CO and HC was found higher at speed range12–30 km/h whereas emission rate of NOx and CO2 were found higher speed range of 30–40 km/h. The evaluation of travelling behavior corresponding instantaneous emission of auto-rickshaw concludes that and the improving vehicle flow and reducing frequency of sudden acceleration and deceleration could curb emission rate and reduce fuel consumption.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122997163","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}
T. Basak, S. Sasmal, S. Chakraborty, S. Chakrabarti
{"title":"Modeling of lower ionospheric response during solar X-ray events using propagating radio wave signal","authors":"T. Basak, S. Sasmal, S. Chakraborty, S. Chakrabarti","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738537","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738537","url":null,"abstract":"The excess solar X-ray radiation during solar flares causes an enhancement of ionization in the lower ionospheric D-region and hence affects sub-ionospherically propagating Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio wave signal amplitude and phase. VLF signal amplitude and dynamic phase perturbation $(Delta A)$ and amplitude time delay $(Delta t)$ (also the corresponding solar X-ray as measured by GOES-15) of several VLF transmitters such as NWC/19.8 kHz, VTX/18.2 kHz etc. signals have been computed for solar flares. In the first part of the work, using the well-known Long Wave Propagation Capability technique, we simulated the flare induced excess amount of lower ionospheric electron density profile by amplitude perturbation method [1]. Unperturbed D-region electron density is also obtained from simulation with the help of the 2-component D-region model and compared with International Reference Ionosphere-model results. Further, in the second part, we compute the corresponding ‘sluggishness’ through ionospheric time delay and effective electron recombination coefficient $(alpha_{eff})$ analysis [1]. We find that while the time delay is anti-correlated with the flare peak energy flux $(varphi_{max})$ which is independent of solar zenith angle values [2, 3].","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114431607","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":"Mid-latitude and high latitude ionospheric disturbances during Sudden Stratospheric Warming events observed by VLF/LF signals","authors":"A. Sen, S. Pal, S. Mondal, Y. Hobara","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738682","url":null,"abstract":"We present mid-latitude and high-latitude D-region ionospheric disturbances during the Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) events in the northern hemisphere at polar and sub-polar region. The SSW events have been detected by VLF/LF radio signals in different solar conditions. We have analysed VLF/LF radio signals transmitted from five transmitters namely, NAA, NRK, GQD, NOM and NLK, and received at several locations in Europe, USA and Japan during the events. Significant anomalies in nighttime and daytime VLF/LF signals have been found for all propagation paths associated with stratospheric temperature rise at 10hPa level occurred due to the SSW events. There is an increase or a decrease in VLF/LF amplitudes (~3-5 dB) during daytime and nighttime because of change in electron density, electron-neutral collision frequency profiles and associated modal interference effects between the propagating waves which may happen in lower ionospheric region during the SSW events.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129704112","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":"Identification and Estimation of Rainfall Intensity using Microwave Radiometric Measurements","authors":"Tuhina Halder, A. Adhikari, A. Maitra","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738706","url":null,"abstract":"Rainfall information is important in various fields such as agriculture, water resource management, and weather forecast. A proper and efficient forecast of precipitation occurrences and rainfall amounts is important in this connection. Information on the different phases of atmospheric water is necessary to characterize the impending precipitation. A multi-frequency microwave radiometer is capable of continuous monitoring of the brightness temperature of atmospheric emissions which is capable of sensing water vapour, liquid water and their evolution towards forming rain structures with different microphysical properties.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128582701","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":"Deciphering the weakening of the Indian summer monsoon circulation using a regional climate model RegCM 4.5","authors":"B. Abish, A. K","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738175","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, the weakening of the Indian summer monsoon circulation is analyzed using the regional climate model RegCM 4.5. It is seen that the when sulfate aerosol component is included in the model run, the simulated temperature shows a cooling at 925 hPa during the 2000 –2011 period for the JJA season. Almost similar pattern is shown when compared with the JRA-55 reanalysis data. At the same time, the Indian Ocean warming has caused an increase in the temperature of the surface waters. Concurrently, the steep temperature that is essential for the strength of the summer monsoon circulation has weakened, resulting in the reduction of the monsoon rainfall over India.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"31 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128594977","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":"Novel Design of Printed Antenna Integrated with Bandpass Filter for C-band Applications","authors":"P. Shome, T. Khan","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738386","url":null,"abstract":"A novel configuration of filtering antenna for C-band applications is presented in this paper. An elliptical radiator based UWB monopole antenna is first investigated and then integrated to a wideband bandpass filter to achieve high frequency selectivity as well as compactness. The bandpass filter is constituted by stepped impedance stub loaded resonator for C-band applications. Aperture backed inter-digital coupled lines are used to feed the multiple-mode resonator of proposed bandpass filter. The proposed filtenna leaves out the necessity of cascading any additional $50 Omega$ microstrip elements in between the developed antenna and filter, thus making the system smaller. The incorporation of planar antenna and the filter is carried out using FR4 substrate board with permittivity 4.4 and thickness 1.6 mm. The overall dimension of the wideband filtenna is obtained as $59 times 42$ mm $^{2}$. Performance analysis of the UWB antenna, bandpass filter and their integrated structure has been carried out systematically in this paper. An in-depth agreement between simulated and measured results is discovered for the proposed configurations.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128984355","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":"Specific Absorption Rate Measurement various Frequencies of Mobile Phones","authors":"J. Nirala, P. R., J. Behari","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738359","url":null,"abstract":"Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) is one of the important issues in the field of EMI and EMC since twentieth century. SAR is a measurement of the rate at which energy is absorbed by an object when exposed to an electromagnetic field. SAR is usually averaged either over a small sample volume (1 g or 10 g of tissue) or over the whole body.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129167235","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":"Deep low frequency image of Coma cluster of galaxies","authors":"D. Lal, C. Ishwara-Chandra","doi":"10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/URSIAP-RASC.2019.8738415","url":null,"abstract":"We would present our efforts to map radio emission using the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in order to achieve high sensitivity, high resolution, high dynamic range mapping of the Coma cluster of galaxies. We will present low radio frequency, 400 MHz imaging with band-3 of upgraded GMRT, of the Coma cluster, an important ‘laboratory’ to study the role of cluster environment on the properties of the radio sources in the cluster. The image has an angular resolution of 5 arcsec and an rms of 28 microJy. We detected more than 100 extended sources within a circular region of diameter 2.9 deg and identify numerous active galactic nuclei, including new detections for the first time for three sources. Early results from this effort would be presented.","PeriodicalId":344386,"journal":{"name":"2019 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (AP-RASC)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126875838","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}