• Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics
  • Vol. 30, Issue 1, 7 (2013)
Sheng-yang GU1、*, Tao LI1, Liu Alan2, Swenson Gary3, Gardner Chester3, Riggin Dennis4, and Fritts David4
Author Affiliations
  • 1[in Chinese]
  • 2Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach,Florida USA
  • 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana Illinois USA
  • 4Northwest Research Associates, Colorado Research Associates Division, Boulder Colorado USA
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    DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1007-5461. 2013.02.007 Cite this Article
    GU Sheng-yang, LI Tao, Alan Liu, Gary Swenson, Chester Gardner, Dennis Riggin, David Fritts. Comparison of the simultaneous horizontal wind observations by Na lidar, meteor radar and medium frequency radar[J]. Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2013, 30(1): 7 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Na lidar, meteor radar and medium frequency (MF) radar are three significant techniques in measuring mesospheric horizontal wind fields and were extensively used nowadays. With the three instruments, simultaneous observations were operated for many nights in Hawaii from 2002 to 2005. The horizontal winds observations as long as 8 hours at two nights of July 9, 2002 and October 23, 2003 were chosen and analyzed to study the differences of the three techniques. It is found that the wind amplitudes observed by Na lidar and meteor radar are agreeable with each other normally, but both much larger than MF radar observations. The vertical variations of the nightly mean wind observations show that the three instruments could obtain consistent (evidently discrepant) wind observations when the wind amplitudes and the corresponding shear are weak (strong).
    GU Sheng-yang, LI Tao, Alan Liu, Gary Swenson, Chester Gardner, Dennis Riggin, David Fritts. Comparison of the simultaneous horizontal wind observations by Na lidar, meteor radar and medium frequency radar[J]. Chinese Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2013, 30(1): 7
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