Application of and Enhancement to Arctic Infrastructure for the Study of Long-Term Change in the Earth's Polar Mesosphere

• Main Author: Kelley, Michael C.
• Other Authors: CORNELL UNIV ITHACA NY SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Atmospheric Physics; Meteorology; Geography; Radiofrequency Wave Propagation; *MESOSPHERE; *CLIMATOLOGY; *INFRASTRUCTURE; POLAR REGIONS; HIGH FREQUENCY; OPTIMIZATION; LONG RANGE(TIME); DATA ACQUISITION; GEOPHYSICS; EARTH(PLANET); ROCKETS; ARCTIC REGIONS; PMSE(POLAR MESOSPHERE SUMMER ECHOES); HIPAS(HIGH POWER AURORAL STIMULATION); ROCKET OBSERVATIONS; Arctic; Ramos
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA414944; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA414944

Our Summer 2000 preliminary study of HF-PMSE is published in Geophysical Research Letters. We carried out a full climatological study at HIPAS and a long campaign at HAARP in Summer 2001. Our work in 2002 included preliminary 139-MHz studies and collection of MF data from Poker Flat corresponding to the HIPAS observations. Our goal in 2003 is to complete the data collection for C. Ramos' thesis, hopefully with multiple radar observations at HAARP. Finally, we have submitted a paper dealing with new rocket observations in the Arecibo heater beam to the Journal of Geophysical Research.