Urbana radar systems: Possibilities and limitations
Abstract
The Aeronomy Laboratory Field Station of the University of Illinois at Urbana contains three different radar systems capable of probing various regions of the atmosphere below about 100 km. These are an mesosphere-stratosphere-troposphere (MST) radar, a VHF meteor radar and an MF partial-reflection radar. All three radars can measure winds and waves in the ionospheric D region. The MST radar is, in addition, capable of probing the lower stratosphere and upper troposphere. A sodium (Na) LIDAR is also located at the Field Station and provides an additional way of studing winds and waves in the mesosphere by observing temporal variations in the sodium density profile.
- Publication:
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Middle Atmosphere Program. Handbook for MAP. Volume 14
- Pub Date:
- December 1984
- Bibcode:
- 1984maph...14..331R
- Keywords:
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- Earth Ionosphere;
- Mesosphere;
- Meteorological Radar;
- Radio Meteorology;
- Stratosphere;
- Troposphere;
- Atmospheric Physics;
- Optical Radar;
- Radar Antennas;
- Radar Echoes;
- Temporal Distribution;
- Very High Frequencies;
- Wind Velocity;
- Communications and Radar