Polar mesosphere summer echoes and associated atmospheric gravity waves

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Echo Sounding, Eiscat Radar System (Europe), Gravity Waves, Mesosphere, Polar Regions, Atmospheric Turbulence, Energy Dissipation, High Frequencies, Summer

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Mesospheric observations made with the European Incoherent Scatter (EISCAT) very high frequency radar are reported. A correlator program to determine pulse-to-pulse correlation functions for Barker coded double pulses is applied. During a total of 5 hours a relatively weak Polar Mesosphere Summer Echo (PMSE) is observed at a height of 85 km with its intensity increasing to a maximum at intervals of approximately 27 minutes. In the region below the PMSE layer, height profiles of vertical velocity showed an atmospheric gravity wave, also with a period of about 27 minutes. In most cases the maximum intensity of the PMSE corresponded to the maximum upward velocity associated with the wave. It is suggested that particle precipitation, adiabatic cooling, and breaking at the mesopause, play a role in creating the conditions for PMSEs to be observed.

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