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Rothera meteor radar data, Rothera Station, Antarctica, 2005-2007
The Skiymet meteor radar was deployed at Rothera (68S, 68W) in Feb 2005. The radar measures the winds, waves and tides of the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) regions of the atmosphere. The radar routinely makes three types of measurement: 1. horizontal winds at heights of ~ 75 - 105 km from the drifting of meteors as they are carried by the winds of the MLT; 2. atmospheric temperature from the decay rate of meteor echoes; 3. meteor fluxes, derived from several thousand meteors per day.
The radar has been used with an existing, identical, radar in the Arctic at the conjugate latitude of 68N, 21E (Esrange) to produce accurate climatologies of winds, waves and tides - and to quantify the differences between the Antarctic and Arctic MLT (using identical radars eliminates otherwise problematic measurement biases). Other studies will carefully examine meteor/MF-radar instrument biases and apply a developing technique to continually measure temperature using the decay rate of meteor echoes. The radar complements the existing OH temperature spectrometer and imaging airglow camera at Rothera.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2007-11-01
- Date (Revision)
- 2007-11-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2007-11-01
- Date (released)
- 2007-11-01
- Edition
- 1
- Unique resource identifier
- 4ad54b7c-f4a2-4ebf-adfe-64ef558e7cf9
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- uuid
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00287
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- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
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- Please cite this item as: None
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- completed Completed
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- asNeeded As needed
- Maintenance note
- completed Completed
- Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Winds > Upper Level Winds
- EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Radar Cross-section
- EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Radar Reflectivity
- EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Return Power
- EARTH SCIENCE > Spectral/Engineering > Radar > Sensor Counts
- EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Temperature
- Theme
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- Atmospheric conditions
- horizontal winds
- mesosphere
- meteor fluxes
- meteor radar
- radar biases
- thermosphere
- waves and tides
- Place
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- Rothera Antarctica
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- Open Government Licence v3.0
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- This data is governed by the NERC Data Policy
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- Other constraints
- Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS.
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2005-02-14
- End date
- 2007-04-18
- Supplemental Information
- It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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Methodology:
This project is part of the WFL programme
Data quality:
The radar has operated faultlessly from first operation on 14 February 2005.
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- ISO 19115:2003(E)
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