Abstract
The complex demodulation method was employed to analyse observations of TIDs carried out by means of multifrequency HF Doppler sounding at vertical incidence over Almaty (76°55′E, 43°15′N). Two types of behaviour of the amplitude and phase in the band-pass filtered Doppler shift oscillations were revealed. These were packet-like wave structures and quasi-stochastic TIDs. A study of the phase behaviour inside wave packets showed that most of them had a quasi-monochromatic structure, some of them had oscillations with a period which increased with time, and none had oscillations with a period which decreased with time. Phase jumps between nearby packets were explained as a result of interference between two adjacent packets having similar oscillation periods. A method of calculating the correlation coefficient for the wave packets propagating on a background of quasi-stochastic TIDs was developed. This showed that wave packets (having periods between 7 and 50 min) travelled in the vertical plane practically without any loss of coherence, while quasi-stochastic TIDs had a short coherence length; the velocity of the quasi-stochastic TIDs was noticeably larger than that of the wave packets.
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