MAARSY – the new MST radar on Andøya/Norway
The Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Kühlungsborn, Germany (IAP) is installing a new powerful VHF radar on the North-Norwegian island Andøya (69.30° N, 16.04° E) in 2009/2010. The new M iddle A tmosphere A lomar R adar Sy stem (MAARSY) replaces the existing ALWIN radar which has been oper...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:87ef7af02aae4ff7af15850d979ccc9f 2023-05-15T13:25:36+02:00 MAARSY – the new MST radar on Andøya/Norway R. Latteck W. Singer M. Rapp T. Renkwitz 2010-10-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-8-219-2010 https://doaj.org/article/87ef7af02aae4ff7af15850d979ccc9f DE EN ger eng Copernicus Publications http://www.adv-radio-sci.net/8/219/2010/ars-8-219-2010.pdf https://doaj.org/toc/1684-9965 https://doaj.org/toc/1684-9973 1684-9965 1684-9973 doi:10.5194/ars-8-219-2010 https://doaj.org/article/87ef7af02aae4ff7af15850d979ccc9f Advances in Radio Science, Vol 8, Pp 219-224 (2010) Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 article 2010 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-8-219-2010 2022-12-31T08:06:40Z The Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Kühlungsborn, Germany (IAP) is installing a new powerful VHF radar on the North-Norwegian island Andøya (69.30° N, 16.04° E) in 2009/2010. The new M iddle A tmosphere A lomar R adar Sy stem (MAARSY) replaces the existing ALWIN radar which has been operated continuously on Andøya for more than 10 years. The new system is a monostatic radar operated at 53.5 MHz with an active phased array antenna consisting of 433 Yagi antennas. The 3-element Yagi antennas are arranged in an equilateral triangle grid forming a circular aperture of approximately 6300 m 2 . Each individual antenna is connected to its own transceiver with independent phase control and a scalable output up to 2 kW. This arrangement allows very high flexibility of beam forming and beam steering with a symmetric radar beam of a minimum half power beam width of 3.6°, a maximum directive gain of 33.5 dB and a total transmitted peak power of approximately 800 kW. The IF signals of each 7 transceivers connected to each 7 antennas arranged in a hexagon are combined to 61 receiving channels. Selected channels or combinations of IF signals are sent to a 16-channel data acquisition system with 25 m sampling resolution and 16-bit digitization specified which will be upgraded to 64 channels in the final stage. The high flexibility of the new system allows classical Doppler beam swinging as well as experiments with simultaneously formed multiple beams and the use of modern interferometric applications for improved studies of the Arctic atmosphere from the troposphere up to the lower thermosphere with high spatiotemporal resolution. Article in Journal/Newspaper Andøya Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Norway Andøya ENVELOPE(13.982,13.982,68.185,68.185) Advances in Radio Science 8 219 224 |
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The Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics in Kühlungsborn, Germany (IAP) is installing a new powerful VHF radar on the North-Norwegian island Andøya (69.30° N, 16.04° E) in 2009/2010. The new M iddle A tmosphere A lomar R adar Sy stem (MAARSY) replaces the existing ALWIN radar which has been operated continuously on Andøya for more than 10 years. The new system is a monostatic radar operated at 53.5 MHz with an active phased array antenna consisting of 433 Yagi antennas. The 3-element Yagi antennas are arranged in an equilateral triangle grid forming a circular aperture of approximately 6300 m 2 . Each individual antenna is connected to its own transceiver with independent phase control and a scalable output up to 2 kW. This arrangement allows very high flexibility of beam forming and beam steering with a symmetric radar beam of a minimum half power beam width of 3.6°, a maximum directive gain of 33.5 dB and a total transmitted peak power of approximately 800 kW. The IF signals of each 7 transceivers connected to each 7 antennas arranged in a hexagon are combined to 61 receiving channels. Selected channels or combinations of IF signals are sent to a 16-channel data acquisition system with 25 m sampling resolution and 16-bit digitization specified which will be upgraded to 64 channels in the final stage. The high flexibility of the new system allows classical Doppler beam swinging as well as experiments with simultaneously formed multiple beams and the use of modern interferometric applications for improved studies of the Arctic atmosphere from the troposphere up to the lower thermosphere with high spatiotemporal resolution. |
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MAARSY – the new MST radar on Andøya/Norway |
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