AbstractWe 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 radar has been operated in a high-power MST-ISR mode for 3-day runs four times per year to study the seasonal variation of mesospheric echoes. Doppler spectra are obtained with 1min and 150-m nominal resolution yielding power, horizontal and vertical winds, and spectral width. The rich echo structures contain braids and billows suggestive of Kelvin–Helmholtz instability (KHI). We present three cases; (1) a short sequence of billows growing in height and becoming unstable; (2) a long train of billows showing high levels of turbulence at two different locations; and (3) a series of billows passing only slowly through the field of view. In all cases, the layers were associated with strong wind shears, mature billows were 1–1.5km tall, and separation of KH phase fronts was 8–10km. We compare our observations with OH imager observation and numerical simulations.


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    Titel :

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


    Beteiligte:
    Lehmacher, G.A. (Autor:in) / Guo, L. (Autor:in) / Kudeki, E. (Autor:in) / Reyes, P.M. (Autor:in) / Akgiray, A. (Autor:in) / Chau, J.L. (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 40 , 6 ; 734-743


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2007-05-16


    Format / Umfang :

    10 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch






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