• Frequency spectra of horizontal winds in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere region from multistatic specular meteor radar observations during the SIMONe 2018 campaign 

      Charuvil, Harikrishnan; Chau, Jorge L.; Marino, Raffaele; Vierinen, Juha; Vargas, Fabio; Urco, Juan M.; Clahsen, Matthias; Jacobi, Christoph (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-11)
      In recent years, multistatic specular meteor radars (SMRs) have been introduced to study the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) dynamics with increasing spatial and temporal resolution. SMRs, compared to other groundbased observations, have the advantage of continuously measuring the region between 80 and 100 km independent of weather, season, or time of day. In this paper, frequency spectra ...
    • Observing Mesospheric Turbulence With Specular Meteor Radars: A Novel Method for Estimating Second-Order Statistics of Wind Velocity 

      Vierinen, Juha; Chau, Jorge L.; Charuvil, Harikrishnan; Urco, Miguel; Clahsen, Matthias; Avsarkisov, Victor; Marino, Raffaele; Volz, Ryan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-07)
      There are few observational techniques for measuring the distribution of kinetic energy within the mesosphere with a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. <br>This study describes a method for estimating the three‐dimensional mesospheric wind field correlation function from specular meteor trail echoes. Each radar echo provides a measurement of a one‐dimensional projection of the wind velocity ...
    • Validation of Multistatic Meteor Radar Analysis Using Modeled Mesospheric Dynamics: An Assessment of the Reliability of Gradients and Vertical Velocities 

      Charuvil Asokan, Harikrishnan; Chau, Jorge L.; Larsen, Miguel F.; Conte, J. Federico; Marino, Raffaele; Vierinen, Juha; Baumgarten, Gerd; Borchert, Sebastian (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-28)
      A virtual meteor radar system based on the upper-atmosphere extension of the high-resolution ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic general circulation model is constructed to validate multistatic specular meteor radar (SMR) analyses. The virtual radar system examines the validity of mean winds and gradients estimation techniques used in multistatic SMRs. The study is motivated by unexpected mean values and ...