The Urbana coherent-scatter radar: Synthesis and first results
Abstract
A coherent scatter radar system was synthesized and several hundred hours of echo power and line of sight velocity data obtained. The coherent scatter radar utilizes a diode array and components from meteor radar. The receiving system permits a time resolution of one minute in the data. Echo power from the D region shows a high degree of variability from day to day. Examples of changes in power level at shorter time scales are observed. Velocity data show the existence of gravity waves and occasionally exhibit vertical standing wave characteristics.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- December 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979STIN...8023531G
- Keywords:
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- Backscattering;
- Coherent Radar;
- Coherent Scattering;
- Radar Echoes;
- Scatter Propagation;
- Velocity Measurement;
- Computer Programs;
- Diodes;
- Gravity Waves;
- Mesosphere;
- Meteorological Radar;
- Standing Waves;
- Communications and Radar