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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6509-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-6509-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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08 Oct 2021
Research article |
| 08 Oct 2021
| 08 Oct 2021
Atmospheric tomography using the Nordic Meteor Radar Cluster and Chilean Observation Network De Meteor Radars: network details and 3D-Var retrieval
Institute of Applied Physics & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Microwave Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Alexander Kozlovsky
Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Center for Space and Atmospheric Research and Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Zishun Qiao
Center for Space and Atmospheric Research and Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Masaki Tsutsumi
National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Tokyo, Japan
Chris Hall
Tromsø Geophysical Observatory UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Satonori Nozawa
Division for Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Research
Institute for Space-Earth Environment Research, Nagoya University, Japan
Mark Lester
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Evgenia Belova
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden
Johan Kero
Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna, Sweden
Patrick J. Espy
Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
Robert E. Hibbins
Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway
Nicholas Mitchell
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Bath, Bath, UK
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Short summary
Wind observations at the edge to space, 70–110 km altitude, are challenging. Meteor radars have become a widely used instrument to obtain mean wind profiles above an instrument for these heights. We describe an advanced mathematical concept and present a tomographic analysis using several meteor radars located in Finland, Sweden and Norway, as well as Chile, to derive the three-dimensional flow field. We show an example of a gravity wave decelerating the mean flow.
Wind observations at the edge to space, 70–110 km altitude, are challenging. Meteor radars have...
