Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-955-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-955-2019
Research article
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12 Feb 2019
Research article |  | 12 Feb 2019

Enhancing the spatiotemporal features of polar mesosphere summer echoes using coherent MIMO and radar imaging at MAARSY

Juan Miguel Urco, Jorge Luis Chau, Tobias Weber, and Ralph Latteck

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For decades, radar observations have been used to study complicated atmospheric dynamics. Previous observations of the mesosphere, between 80 and 90 km altitude, over polar regions have been limited to a spatial resolution of a few kilometers. In this work, we present a technique which allows 3-D radar observations of the mesospheric dynamics, with an unprecedented spatial resolution of ~ 900 m. We combine the concept of MIMO and high-resolution algorithms to improve the spatial resolution.