Unusual features in high statistics radar meteor studies at EISCAT

• Published in: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• Main Authors: Brosch, Noah, Häggström, Ingemar, Pellinen-Wannberg, Asta, Westman, Assar
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2010
• Subjects: Papers; Kiruna; Norway; Tromsø; Sodankylä; Ramfjordmoen; EISCAT
• Online Access: http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/401/2/1069; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15695.x

We describe results of an experiment conducted with the European Incoherent Scatter (EISCAT) radars during three 8-h runs on consecutive nights in 2008 December aiming to detect and study the high-altitude meteor population along with the meteors detected at classical ∼100-km altitudes. The experime...