Imaging of Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes with the 450 MHz Poker Flat Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Nicolls, Michael J ^a   Heinselman, C J ^a   Hope, E A ^a   Ranjan, S ^a   Kelley, M C ^b   Kelly, J D ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR IMAGING;

MESOPAUSE; MESOSPHERE; POKER FLAT ADVANCED MODULAR INCOHERENT SCATTER RADAR (PFISR); POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHOES (PMSE);

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

DETECTION METHOD; IMAGING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHO; RADAR; REFLECTIVITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE;

EID: 37349128525     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031476     Document Type: Article

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