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Item Restricted On the lack of southern hemisphere polar mesosphere summer echoes(American Geophysical Union, 1995-06-20) Balsley, B.B.; Woodman Pollitt, Ronald Francisco; Sarango, M.; Rodriguez, R.; Urbina, J.; E. Ragaini; Carey, J.; Huaman, M.; Giraldez, A.We report VHF radar observations of the southern high-latitude mesopause region using wind profilers that were installed recently on King George Island, Antarctica, and Ushuaia, Argentina. Briefly, our observations, which were made during January and February 1993, show almost no evidence of so-called polar mesosphere summer echoes, or PMSE. Since these echoes are a predominant feature of the northern high-latitude mesosphere in summer, their absence in the southern hemisphere is both surprising and intriguing. In this paper we present evidence demonstrating the virtual absence of the echoes and demonstrate that our systems were capable of detecting them had they been present. We also outline some of the consequences of this intriguing result, which are supported by observed hemispheric differences in polar mesospheric clouds, mesospheric temperatures, upper atmospheric gravity wave activity, and mean circulation patterns.Item Open Access The ST radar under construction at Piura, Peru (6°S, 81°W)(Instituto Geofísico del Perú, 1989) Balsley, B.B.; Ecklund, W.L.; Carter, D.A.; Gage, K.S.; Mugica, R.; Mabres, A.; Rodriguez, R.; Avery, S.K.; Violette, J.; Woodman Pollitt, Ronald FranciscoThe Piura ST radar currently under construction at the Universite de Piura in Piura, Peru will be a 50 MHz VHF system. This radar will form the easternmost facility in the proposed trans-Pacific network of ST radars that will eventually span the equatorial Pacific. Support for the construction of the Piura radar is being furnished by the U.S. National Science Foundation. The ST radar at Piura is part of a cooperative research program involving NOAA's Aeronomy Laboratory and the University of Colorado in the United States and the Universite de Piura and the Instituto Geofísica del Peru in Peru. The radar is being constructed on the campus of the Universite de Piura. A container filled with antenna cables and radar hardware was shipped from Alaska during the past few months. Site preparations are now underway and the antenna construction will begin about the first of the year. A building will be constructed next to the antenna site to house the radar equipment. A diesel generator has been purchased to provide a continuous source of power to the radar. The first phase of construction will be completed by mid-1989 and the radar will be operated for the first year in a vertical-only mode. During 1990 the radar will be modified so that horizontal as well as vertical velocities can be measured.