Infrasound - the cause of strong Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes?
The ESRAD 52-MHz and the EISCAT 224-MHz radars in northern Scandinavia observed thin layers of strongly enhanced radar echoes from the mesosphere (Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes - PMWE) during a solar proton event in November 2004. Using the interferometric capabilities of ESRAD it was found that th...
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ftnonlinearchiv:oai:noa.gwlb.de:cop_mods_00033443 2023-05-15T16:04:32+02:00 Infrasound - the cause of strong Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes? Kirkwood, S. Chilson, P. Belova, E. Dalin, P. Häggström, I. Rietveld, M. Singer, W. 2006-03 electronic https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-24-475-2006 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00033443 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00033397/angeo-24-475-2006.pdf https://angeo.copernicus.org/articles/24/475/2006/angeo-24-475-2006.pdf eng eng Copernicus Publications Annales Geophysicae -- http://www.bibliothek.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/?1458425 -- https://www.ann-geophys.net/ -- https://www.ann-geophys.net/volumes.html -- http://link.springer.com/journal/585 -- 1432-0576 https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-24-475-2006 https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00033443 https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00033397/angeo-24-475-2006.pdf https://angeo.copernicus.org/articles/24/475/2006/angeo-24-475-2006.pdf uneingeschränkt info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article Verlagsveröffentlichung article Text doc-type:article 2006 ftnonlinearchiv https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-24-475-2006 2022-02-08T22:45:45Z The ESRAD 52-MHz and the EISCAT 224-MHz radars in northern Scandinavia observed thin layers of strongly enhanced radar echoes from the mesosphere (Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes - PMWE) during a solar proton event in November 2004. Using the interferometric capabilities of ESRAD it was found that the scatterers responsible for PMWE show very high horizontal travel speeds, up to 500 ms-1 or more, and high aspect sensitivity, with echo arrival angles spread over as little as 0.3°. ESRAD also detected, on some occasions, discrete scattering regions moving across the field of view with periodicities of a few seconds. The very narrow, vertically directed beam of the more powerful EISCAT radar allowed measurements of the spectral widths of the radar echoes both inside the PMWE and from the background plasma above and below the PMWE. Spectral widths inside the PMWE were found to be indistinguishable from those from the background plasma. We propose that scatter from highly-damped ion-acoustic waves generated by partial reflection of infrasonic waves provides a reasonable explanation of the characteristics of the very strong PMWE reported here. Article in Journal/Newspaper EISCAT Niedersächsisches Online-Archiv NOA Annales Geophysicae 24 2 475 491 |
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The ESRAD 52-MHz and the EISCAT 224-MHz radars in northern Scandinavia observed thin layers of strongly enhanced radar echoes from the mesosphere (Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes - PMWE) during a solar proton event in November 2004. Using the interferometric capabilities of ESRAD it was found that the scatterers responsible for PMWE show very high horizontal travel speeds, up to 500 ms-1 or more, and high aspect sensitivity, with echo arrival angles spread over as little as 0.3°. ESRAD also detected, on some occasions, discrete scattering regions moving across the field of view with periodicities of a few seconds. The very narrow, vertically directed beam of the more powerful EISCAT radar allowed measurements of the spectral widths of the radar echoes both inside the PMWE and from the background plasma above and below the PMWE. Spectral widths inside the PMWE were found to be indistinguishable from those from the background plasma. We propose that scatter from highly-damped ion-acoustic waves generated by partial reflection of infrasonic waves provides a reasonable explanation of the characteristics of the very strong PMWE reported here. |
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Infrasound - the cause of strong Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes? |
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Infrasound - the cause of strong Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes? |
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Infrasound - the cause of strong Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes? |
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Infrasound - the cause of strong Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes? |
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Infrasound - the cause of strong Polar Mesosphere Winter Echoes? |
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