Meteor trail induced backscatter in MST radar echoes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 473-476

  Raghava Reddi, C ^a   Muraleedharan Nair, S ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; GEOMAGNETISM; IONIZATION OF GASES; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; RADAR; TIME DELAY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; METEORITES; RADAR MEASUREMENT;

AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS; DOPPLER SPECTRA; ELECTRIC FIELD REVERSAL; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; MULTIPLE REFLECTIONS; SPECTRAL PEAK; SPECULAR REFLECTION MODELS;

RADAR REFLECTION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

METEOR TRAILS; RADAR ECHOES;

EID: 0032002907     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98gl00139     Document Type: Article

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