Wind comparisons between meteor radar and Doppler shifts in airglow emissions using field-widened Michelson interferometers

Kristoffersen, Samuel K.; Ward, William E.; Meek, Chris E.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3995-2024

Articles | Volume 17, issue 13

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3995-2024

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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-3995-2024

© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 13

Research article

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05 Jul 2024

Research article |

| 05 Jul 2024

Wind comparisons between meteor radar and Doppler shifts in airglow emissions using field-widened Michelson interferometers

Samuel K. Kristoffersen, William E. Ward, and Chris E. Meek

Data sets

ERWIN/Meteor Radar 2017/2018 winter observations from Eureka, Nu. William Ward et al. https://doi.org/10.25545/EEYIEW

Short summary

In this paper, the relationship between observations from two instruments, a meteor radar and a field-widened Michelson interferometer (ERWIN) which provide complementary information on this region, is investigated. On average the ratio of ERWIN winds to meteor radar winds is ∼ 0.7. Differences between the wind observations may be caused by variations in the airglow brightness associated with dissipating gravity waves.