Sounding rocket project “PMWE” for investigation of polar mesosphere winter echoes

• Published in: Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
• Main Authors: Strelnikov, Boris, Staszak, Tristan, Latteck, Ralph, Renkwitz, Toralf, Strelnikova, Irina, Lübken, Franz-Josef, Baumgarten, Gerd, Fiedler, Jens, Chau, Jorge L., Stude, Joan, Rapp, Markus, Friedrich, Martin, Gumbel, Jörg, Hedin, Jonas, Belova, Evgenia, Hörschgen-Eggers, Marcus, Giono, Gabriel, Hörner, Igor, Löhle, Stefan, Eberhart, Martin, Fasoulas, Stefanos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021
• Subjects: Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre; Atmosphärische Spurenstoffe; Andøya
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/142172/; https://elib.dlr.de/142172/1/PMWE-Elsevier.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2021.105596

A first sounding rocket campaign dedicated to investigate the creation mechanism of Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes (PMWE) was conducted in April 2018 from the north Norwegian Andøya Space Center (69 ∘ N, 16 ∘ E). Two instrumented sounding rockets were launched on 13th and 18th of April under PMWE an...