Ship-borne VHF radar for mesospheric and ionospheric research

Abstract

This paper describes a VHF coherent radar installed on board the Peruvian research vessel "Humboldt". The system has been designed and developed at Jicamarca Radio Observatory. The radar's antenna is a COCO array of 21 x 24m, specially designed to be installed on a ship. System description is included, as well as first results from observations of Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes (PMSE) in Antarctica, and Equatorial Electrojet along the southern Peruvian coast.

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2000

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Radar , Equatorial electrojet , Mesosphere , Ionosphere , Upper atmosphere , Investigation

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12816/557

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Woodman Pollitt, Ronald Francisco  
Sarango, Martin F.

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Instituto GeofĂ­sico del PerĂș, Radio Observatorio de Jicamarca

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