A review of Mesosphere–Stratosphere–Troposphere (MST) radar developments and studies, circa 1997–2008

WK Hocking - Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 2011 - Elsevier
Studies of the Mesosphere, Stratosphere and Troposphere by radar have shown great
growth in the last 10–15 years. The growth has occurred in both diversity and depth in all …

Spread F–an old equatorial aeronomy problem finally resolved?

RF Woodman - Annales geophysicae, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
One of the oldest scientific topics in Equatorial Aeronomy is related to Spread-F. It includes
all our efforts to understand the physical mechanisms responsible for the existence of …

Novel specular meteor radar systems using coherent MIMO techniques to study the mesosphere and lower thermosphere

JL Chau, JM Urco, JP Vierinen, RA Volz… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - amt.copernicus.org
Typical specular meteor radars (SMRs) use one transmitting antenna and at least a five-
antenna interferometric configuration on reception to study the mesosphere and lower …

Recent advances in atmospheric radar study

S Fukao - 気象集誌. 第 2 輯, 2007 - jlc.jst.go.jp
With certain limitations, atmospheric radars generally called MST (mesosphere,
stratosphere, and troposphere) radars or ST (stratosphere and troposphere) radars are …

Radar observation of extreme vertical drafts in the polar summer mesosphere

JL Chau, R Marino, F Feraco, JM Urco… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The polar summer mesosphere is the Earth's coldest region, allowing the formation of
mesospheric ice clouds. These ice clouds produce strong polar mesospheric summer …

Major upwelling and overturning in the mid-latitude F region ionosphere

D Hysell, M Larsen, D Fritts, B Laughman… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Profiles of the electron number density in the ionosphere are observed at the Arecibo Radio
Observatory in Puerto Rico on a regular basis. Here, we report on recent observations …

Four‐dimensional quantification of Kelvin‐Helmholtz instabilities in the polar summer mesosphere using volumetric radar imaging

JL Chau, JM Urco, V Avsarkisov… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We present and characterize in time and three spatial dimensions a Kelvin‐Helmholtz
Instability (KHI) event from polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSE) observed with the …

Coherent MIMO to improve aperture synthesis radar imaging of field-aligned irregularities: First results at Jicamarca

JM Urco, JL Chau, MA Milla… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar techniques make use of multiple transmitters
and multiple receivers to improve the spatial characterization of targets. In the case where …

Relationship between presunset wave structures and interbubble spacing: The seeding perspective of equatorial plasma bubble

SK Das, AK Patra, EA Kherani… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we study on the precursor seed structures well before the prospective
occurrence of equatorial plasma bubble (EPB). We use the scanning mode observations …

Imaging radar observations of the daytime F‐region irregularities in low‐latitudes of China

Z He, G Chen, C Yan, S Zhang, G Yang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Hainan COherent scatter Phased Array Radar has recorded four patches of daytime
F‐region field‐aligned irregularities on 31 May 2021, and it is the first time to investigate the …