Recommendations on introductory reading to ionosphere phenomena

[sacrovalle]

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!

 

[CrysPhys]

Have you asked the staff at the lab where you enrolled in summer school and, more particularly, the staff that will be supervising your ionosonde antenna project?