Multiple layer PMSE structures: statistical results from six years of PMSE observations and possible physical explanations of their observed properties

Details Multiple layer PMSE structures: statistical results from six years of PMSE observations and possible physical explanations of their observed properties Multiple layer PMSE structures: statistical results from six years of PMSE observations and possible physical explanations of their observed properties

Aug 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003esasp.530..315h&link_type=abstract

In: 16th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, 2 - 5 June 2003, Sankt Gallen, Switzerlan

Physics

Earth Atmosphere: Physics, Earth Atmosphere: Chemistry

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Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes (PMSE) have been studied at Andenes (69°N, 16°E), Norway, using VHF radar observations from 1994-1997 and since 1999. One remarkable feature of all PMSE is the fact that the radar echoes often occur in the form of two or more distinct layers that can persist for periods of up to several hours. Until now, the layering-mechanism leading to these multiple structures is not well understood. Here we are studying the occurrence and the mean altitude distribution of these multiple layer events. To discuss the processes which are potentially responsible for the creation of these multiple structures, we apply a microphysical model of the generation and growth of mesospheric ice particles under the influence of a temperature and wind variation caused by a long period gravity wave together with a charging model. Finally, this theoretical approach is tested in a first case study to investigate gravity wave characteristics derived from VHF radar wind measurements during the PMSE observations.

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