• The Case for Combining a Large Low‐Band Very High Frequency Transmitter With Multiple Receiving Arrays for Geospace Research: A Geospace Radar 

      Hysell, David; Chau, Jorge Luis; Coles, William A; Milla, Marco; Obenberger, Kenneth; Vierinen, Juha (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-07-09)
      We argue that combining a high‐power, large‐aperture radar transmitter with several large‐aperture receiving arrays to make a geospace radar—a radar capable of probing near‐Earth space from the upper troposphere through to the solar corona—would transform geospace research. We review the emergence of incoherent scatter radar in the 1960s as an agent that unified early, pioneering research in geospace ...
    • Multistatic Specular Meteor Radar Network in Peru: System Description and Initial Results 

      Chau, Jorge L.; Urco, Miguel; Vierinen, Juha; Harding, Brian; Clahsen, Matthias; Pfeffer, Nico; Kuyeng, Karim; Milla, Marco; Erickson, Philip J. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-10)
      The mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region is dominated globally by dynamics at various scales: planetary waves, tides, gravity waves, and stratified turbulence. The latter two can coexist and be significant at horizontal scales less than 500 km, scales that are difficult to measure. This study presents a recently deployed multistatic specular meteor radar system, SIMONe Peru, which can be ...
    • Solved and unsolved riddles about low-latitude daytime valley region plasma waves and 150-km echoes 

      Chau, Jorge Luis; Longley, William; Reyes, Pablo; Pedatella, Nick; Otsuka, Yuichi; Stolle, Claudia; Liu, Huixin; Vierinen, Juha; Milla, Marco; Hysell, David L.; Oppenheim, Meers; Patra, A.; Lehmacher, G; Kudeki, Erhan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-27)
      The Earth’s atmosphere near both the geographic and magnetic equators and at altitudes between 120 and 200 km is called the low-latitude valley region (LLVR) and is among the least understood regions of the ionosphere/thermosphere due to its complex interplay of neutral dynamics, electrodynamics, and photochemistry. Radar studies of the region have revealed puzzling daytime echoes scattered from ...