Can VHF radars at polar latitudes measure mean vertical winds in the presence of PMSE?

• Main Authors: Gudadze, N., Stober, G., Chau, J.L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Göttingen : Copernicus GmbH 2019
• Subjects: Doppler radar; mesosphere; seasonal variation; spatiotemporal analysis; three-dimensional modeling; zonal wind; Norway; 550; Andøya; Alomar
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.34657/4626; https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/5997

Mean vertical velocity measurements obtained from radars at polar latitudes using polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSEs) as an inert tracer have been considered to be non-representative of the mean vertical winds over the last couple of decades. We used PMSEs observed with the Middle Atmosphere Alom...