• 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 ...
    • Novel specular meteor radar systems using coherent MIMO techniques to study the mesosphere and lower thermosphere 

      Chau, J. L.; Urco, Miguel; Vierinen, Juha; Volz, Ryan; Clahsen, Matthias; Pfeffer, Nico; Trautner, Jörg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-05)
      Typical specular meteor radars (SMRs) use one transmitting antenna and at least a five-antenna interferometric configuration on reception to study the mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) region. The interferometric configuration allows the measurement of the angle-of-arrival (AOA) of the detected meteor echoes, which in turn is needed to derive atmospheric parameters (e.g., mean winds, momentum ...