Numerical Analysis of Artificial Electron Heating Effects on Polar Mesospheric Winter Echoes

In this paper, an analytical model is used to analyze the modulated polar mesospheric winter echoes (PMWE). The winter parameters were introduced to simulate the effects of different parameters during the artificial electron heating of PMWE. The important role of the charged dust particle in the creation of PMWE is confirmed again. It is found that during the heating of PMWE, the increases of the dust size, dust charge, electron temperature, initial electron density, and ion-neutral collision frequency cause the increase of the electron density irregularity, and hence the PMWE strength. However, with increasing the dust density, the electron density irregularity and the PMWE strength decrease.