Meteor trails track upper atmospheric winds
Abstract
Meers Oppenheim and his colleagues from Boston University, Peru's Jicamarca Radio Observatory (JRO), and Los Alamos National Laboratory now offer an alternative approach that has its origins in another 50-year-old technique. Free electrons produced in the plasma trails of incoming meteors make an ideal radar target. They also work well as wind tracers.
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Date
2009-06-01
Keywords
Meteors , Ionosphere , Radar , Plasma , Atmospheric Physics
Citation
Wilson, M. (2009). Meteor trails track upper atmospheric winds. Physics Today, 62 (6), 16-17. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3156320
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American Institute of Physics