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sacrovalle
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Hello everyone!
I'm currently an Aerospace major student entering my third year of college, studying in northern Mexico. After enrolling in a summer school by Mexico's national space weather lab, I have been offered an opportunity to participate in the development of an ionosonde antenna in my home state, this as part of my country's first attempt to establish a nationwide system of sensors to study space weather phenomena over our territory.
I am very excited by this opportunity and would like to give it my best, however I am searching for some kind of introduction or fundamentals behind these topics, since they are a little outside the scope of subjects at my university. So far, I have taken the "common core" engineering courses in chemistry, statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, EM theory fundamentals, DC circuits, and math up to ordinary differential equations, as well as Aerospace-focused subjects like materials science and mechanics of materials. Since the ionosonde project is starting almost from the ground up, I will be envolved in almost every aspect of it, so I consider important to get a clear perspective about ionosphere phenomena and how they are studied.
Where do you recommend I start studying? Or should I revise on some "prerequisite" topics before? I would prefer if you could point me towards online materials, since the pandemic keeps access to my school's library very restricted.
Thanks!
I'm currently an Aerospace major student entering my third year of college, studying in northern Mexico. After enrolling in a summer school by Mexico's national space weather lab, I have been offered an opportunity to participate in the development of an ionosonde antenna in my home state, this as part of my country's first attempt to establish a nationwide system of sensors to study space weather phenomena over our territory.
I am very excited by this opportunity and would like to give it my best, however I am searching for some kind of introduction or fundamentals behind these topics, since they are a little outside the scope of subjects at my university. So far, I have taken the "common core" engineering courses in chemistry, statics, dynamics, thermodynamics, EM theory fundamentals, DC circuits, and math up to ordinary differential equations, as well as Aerospace-focused subjects like materials science and mechanics of materials. Since the ionosonde project is starting almost from the ground up, I will be envolved in almost every aspect of it, so I consider important to get a clear perspective about ionosphere phenomena and how they are studied.
Where do you recommend I start studying? Or should I revise on some "prerequisite" topics before? I would prefer if you could point me towards online materials, since the pandemic keeps access to my school's library very restricted.
Thanks!