Title
Multi-radar observations of polar mesosphere summer echoes during the PHOCUS campaign on 21 july 2011
Date Issued
01 December 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Belova E.
Kirkwood S.
Zecha M.
Latteck R.
Hedin J.
Gumbel J.
Häggström I.
University of Tromsø
Abstract
On the morning of July 21, 2011, the PHOCUS sounding rocket was launched from Esrange, Sweden, into noctilucent clouds (NLC) and polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE). We show PMSE observations during the entire day by three atmospheric radars: ESRAD located at the launching site, MORRO located at Ramfjordmoen and MAARSY at Andenes, both in Norway. We found that waves with periods of several hours are observed by all three radars in the PMSE strength. The PMSE spectral widths are in the range of 2-10 m/s and increase with increasing altitude for all radars. Strong PMSE at ESRAD at the lower heights are highly aspect sensitive and have narrow spectra which is a signature of quasi-specular scatter.
Start page
499
End page
502
Volume
721 SP
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84893605826
Source
European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Resource of which it is part
European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
ISSN of the container
03796566
ISBN of the container
978-929092285-8
Conference
21st ESA Symposium om European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus