Multiple-frequency studies of the high-latitude summer mesosphere : implications for scattering processes |
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| Institution: | 1. Space Science Institute, 4750 Walnut Street, Suite 205, Boulder, CO 80301, UCB 564, United States;2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States;3. Laboratoire Atmosphères Milieux Observations Spatiales, Paris, France;4. Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO, 80205, USA;5. Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA;6. John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Columbia, MD 20723, USA;7. Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France |
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| Abstract: | The characteristics of polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE) are studied at 53.5 and 224 MHz. Observations at 2.78 MHz, simultaneous with the ones at the other two frequencies, were carefully compared for indications of PMSE, but no obvious relation was found. Relationships between relative scattering cross-section, spectral width and vertical velocity are studied for the 224 MHz radar, and observations at 53.5 MHz are compared with those at 224 MHz. Results of aspect sensitivity measurements at 53.5 MHz are presented. The implications of these characteristics for several possible scattering mechanisms are discussed. We rule out incoherent scatter and chemically induced fluctuations from the evidence that we have. In view of the extremely low temperatures near the high-latitude mesopause in summer, we discuss several scenarios involving heavy cluster ions and charged aerosol particles. |
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