Buckland Park all-sky interferometric meteor radar

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Holdsworth, David A ^a,b,c   Reid, Iain M ^a,b   Cervera, Manuel A ^b,c  

^a Atmospheric Radar Systems   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c Intelligence   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mesosphere; Meteor; Radar

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

BOUNDARY LAYER RADAR; MESOSPHERE; METEOR RADAR; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCIES (PRF);

METEOROLOGICAL RADAR;

EID: 10944226991     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003RS003014     Document Type: Article

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