Diurnal and seasonal variability of the meteoric flux at the South pole measured with radars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Janches, Diego ^a   Palo, S E ^b   Lau, Elias M ^a   Avery, Susan K ^a   Avery, James P ^a   de la Pena S ^a   Makarov, N A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c Institute of Experimental Meteorology Science and Production Association   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

2129 Interplanetary physics: interplanetary dust; 2494 Ionosphere: Instruments and techniques; 6245 Planetology: Solar system objects: Meteors

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; ANTENNAS; DATA ACQUISITION; INTERFEROMETRY;

METEOR RADAR SYSTEMS; METEOR SOURCES; ORTHOGONAL DIRECTIONS;

RADAR;

INTERPLANETARY DUST; METEOR; RADAR IMAGERY;

EID: 11844277581     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021104     Document Type: Article

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