Insights of Boundary Layer Turbulence Over the Complex Terrain of Central Himalaya from GVAX Field Campaign

A Rajput, N Singh, J Singh, S Rastogi - Asia-Pacific Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Limited observations hinder understanding of turbulent characteristics in mountainous
terrain resulting from heating or cooling of slopes, wind, vertical motions, and heat or …

High-resolution observations of mesospheric layers with the Jicamarca VHF radar

GA Lehmacher, L Guo, E Kudeki, PM Reyes… - Advances in Space …, 2007 - Elsevier
We report new results from the 50-MHz Jicamarca radar in Peru (12° S, 77° W), which is
able to observe backscatter from the daytime mesosphere on any given day. Since 2005, the …

Instrumental errors in spectral-width turbulence measurements by radars

A Dehghan, WK Hocking - Journal of atmospheric and solar-terrestrial …, 2011 - Elsevier
Measurements of turbulent energy dissipation rates by radar spectral-width procedures
require differencing two numbers to produce a difference that is small relative to the two …

[PDF][PDF] 北京犕犛犜雷达探测中间层 低热层观测结果初步分析

田玉芳, 吕达仁 - 地球物理学报, 2016 - researchgate.net
摘要北京MST 雷达是子午工程建设的国内仅有的两部MST 雷达之一, 为研究其在中间层
低热层MLT 区域的探测能力以及数据可靠性, 本文应用北京MST 雷达2012, 2013 …

Preliminary analysis of Beijing MST radar observation results in the mesosphere-lower thermosphere

YF TIAN, DR LÜ - Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2016 - en.dzkx.org
Beijing MST radar is one of the Chinese Meridian Project constructions of only two domestic
MST radars. It was built by Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences …

Radar cross sections for mesospheric echoes at Jicamarca

GA Lehmacher, E Kudeki, A Akgiray… - Annales …, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
Radar cross sections (RCS) of mesospheric layers at 50 MHz observed at Jicamarca, Peru,
range from 10− 18 to 10− 16 m− 1, three orders of magnitudes smaller than cross sections …

Mesospheric wind estimation with the Jicamarca MST radar using spectral mainlobe identification

K Lee, E Kudeki, PM Reyes, GA Lehmacher… - Radio …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract MST (mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere) radar observations at Jicamarca use
four antenna beams, one vertical, others tilted to the east, west, and south, to detect the …

Scattering cross section of mesospheric echoes and turbulence parameters from Gadanki radar observations

D Selvaraj, AK Patra, H Chandra, HSS Sinha… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive study on radar scattering cross section of mesospheric echoes
and mesospheric turbulence parameters based on several days of observations made …

Planned science and scientific discovery in equatorial aeronomy

DL Hysell - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This paper discusses the relationship between planning and discovery in science using
examples drawn from equatorial aeronomy in general and research at the Jicamarca Radio …

Gravity wave ducting observed in the mesosphere over Jicamarca, Peru

GA Lehmacher, E Kudeki, PM Reyes… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Short‐period gravity waves are ubiquitous in the mesosphere, but the vertical structures of
their perturbations are difficult to observe. The Jicamarca 50‐MHz very high frequency radar …