A comparison of detection sensitivity between ALTAIR and Arecibo meteor observations: Can high power and large aperture radars detect low velocity meteor head-echoes

Icarus

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 105-111

  Janches, Diego ^a   Close, Sigrid ^b   Fentzke, Jonathan T ^a,c  

^a Colorado Research Associates Division ^*  (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

Meteors; Radar observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749042574     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.08.022     Document Type: Article

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