Articles | Volume 34, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-1231-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-1231-2016
Regular paper
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19 Dec 2016
Regular paper |  | 19 Dec 2016

Patches of polar mesospheric summer echoes characterized from radar imaging observations with MAARSY

Svenja Sommer and Jorge L. Chau

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Radar echoes from mesospheric altitudes (80–90 km) are called polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSEs). These echoes can be used to derive wind velocities and turbulence strength estimations in a region where measurements are hard to perform. The small-scale structure of PMSEs has not been analysed before but, as we will show, has a major influence on wind and turbulence measurements. We also present a method to improve these measurements by using software beam-steering methods.