Ionospheric Clutter Model for HF Sky-Wave Path Propagation with an FMCW Source

Table 1

Main parameters in the simulation.

Symbol	Quantity	Parameters
	Radar frequency	4.1MHz
	Ionosphere height	300km
	Scattering region radius	2.5km
	Ionosphere thickness	50km
	Classical electron radius	2.8×10^−15m
	Horizontal ionospheric plasma drift velocity	100m/s
	Variance of the electron density fluctuations	10^18m^−6
	Out scale length parameter	10^−4m^−1
	range bins interaction parameter	10
B	sweep bandwidth	30kHz