Meteor head echoes - observations and models

International audience Meteor head echoes - instantaneous echoes moving with the velocities of the meteors - have been recorded since 1947. Despite many attempts, this phenomenon did not receive a comprehensive theory for over 4 decades. The High Power and Large Aperture (HPLA) features, combined wi...

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Main Author: Pellinen-Wannberg, A.
Other Authors: Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna (IRF)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2005
Subjects:
[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean
Atmosphere
[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
EISCAT
Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-00317509
https://hal.science/hal-00317509/document
https://hal.science/hal-00317509/file/angeo-23-201-2005.pdf
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Summary:International audience Meteor head echoes - instantaneous echoes moving with the velocities of the meteors - have been recorded since 1947. Despite many attempts, this phenomenon did not receive a comprehensive theory for over 4 decades. The High Power and Large Aperture (HPLA) features, combined with present signal processing and data storage capabilities of incoherent scatter radars, may give an explanation for the old riddle. The meteoroid passage through the radar beam can be followed with simultaneous spatial-time resolution of about 100m-ms class. The current views of the meteor head echo process will be presented and discussed. These will be related to various EISCAT observations, such as dual-frequency target sizes, altitude distributions and vector velocities.

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