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The Condorequatorial Spread-F Campaign: Overview And Results Of The Large-Scale Measurements, M. C. Kelley, J. Labelle, E. Kudeki, Bela G. Fejer, S. Basu, Su. Basu, K. D. Baker, C. Hanuise, P. Argo, R. F. Woodland, W. E. Swartz, D. T. Farley, J. W. Meriwether

Bela G. Fejer

During the Condor campaign a number of instruments were set up in Peru to support the rocket experiments. In this series of papers we report on the results of the experiments designed to study the equatorial F region. In this overview paper we summarize the main results as well as report upon the macroscopic developments of spread F as evidenced by data from backscatter radars, from scintillation observations, and from digital ionosonde meaurements. In this latter regard, we argue here that at least two factors other than the classical gravitational Rayleigh-Taylor plasma instability process must operate to yield the longest-scale …