Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3583-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3583-2021
Research article
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19 May 2021
Research article |  | 19 May 2021

Resolving the ambiguous direction of arrival of weak meteor radar trail echoes

Daniel Kastinen, Johan Kero, Alexander Kozlovsky, and Mark Lester

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When a meteor enters the atmosphere, it causes a trail of diffusing plasma that moves with the neutral wind. An interferometric radar system can measure such trails and determine its location. However, there is a chance of determining the wrong position due to noise. We simulate this behaviour and use the simulations to successfully determine the true location of ambiguous events. We also successfully test two simple temporal integration methods for avoiding such erroneous determinations.
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