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CUPRI system configuration for NLC-91 and observations of PMSE during Salvo AThe Cornell University Portable Radar Interferometer (CUPRI) provided nearly continuous monitoring of the mesosphere above Esrange, Sweden during the noctilucent cloud rocket and radar campaign of the summer of 1991 (NLC-91). CUPRI probed the mesosphere above Esrange from 78 to 91 km altitude with 300-meter resolution and was sensitive to the enhanced Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes (PMSE) that occur in the same altitude range as NLC formations. Out of the total of 264 hours of CUPRI observation time, PMSE were present for 140 hours. Rocket Salvo A was flown on the night of August 9-10 into an NLC event that occurred simultaneously with a thin and weakening PMSE layer. High-resolution Doppler spectrograms of this PMSE event revealed sawtooth-like discontinuities at approximately 83 km altitude, which we interpret to be a distorted partial reflection layer which was advected across the radar beam.
Document ID
19950047868
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Swartz, Wesley E.
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Cho, John Y. N.
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Miller, Clark A.
(Cornell Univ. Ithaca, NY, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
October 22, 1993
Publication Information
Publication: Geophysical Research Letters
Volume: 20
Issue: 20
ISSN: 0094-8276
Subject Category
Geophysics
Accession Number
95A79467
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF ATM-90-21915
CONTRACT_GRANT: NSF ATM-92-17007
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG5-666
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Public
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