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National Institute of Polar Research

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Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences => Observations by the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition
Monitoring => Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences
IPY => Space and Upper Atmospheric Sciences

Overview  
Title MF radar
Sub-Title Mesosphere and lower-thermosphere wind data
Data Summary Horizontal wind observation at 65-120km altitude over Syowa station, Antarctica, based on a full-correlation analysis and meteor echo measurement. Height coverage is limited up to around 100 km during daytime.
About Observation  
Spatial Coverage
Data Location Syowa Station
Observaion Period /
Temporal Coverage		 1999-03 - present
Data Period 1999-03 - present
Observation Photo
Data Details  
Data Name MF radar data
Data Format digital, binary format
Data Recording /
Acquisition Sampling		 Continuous. Sampling every 2min, 2km
Observation Instruments MF radar
Sample Data
Publication  
Publication method On a request basis

Metadata/AMD : MF radar data

Data Archives : MF radar
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(Contact Person)		 National Institute of Polar Research, Japan (Masaki Tsutsumi)
E-mail tutumi (at) nipr.ac.jp
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Scientific Results /
Publication		 Tsutsumi, M., Aso, T. and Ejiri, M. (2001): Initial results of Syowa MF radar observations in Antarctica, Advances in Polar Upper Atmosphere Research, 15, 103-116.
Murphy, D. J., Tsutsumi, M., Riggin, D. M., Jones, C. O. L., Vincent, R. A., Hagan, M. E., Avery, S. K. (2003): Observations of a non-migrating component of the semidiurnal tide over Antarctica, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2002JD003077.
T. Ogawa, S. Nozawa, M. Tsutsumi, N. F. Arnold, N. Nishitani, N. Sato, and A. S. Yukimatu (2004): Arctic and Antarctic polar mesosphere summer echoes observed with oblique incidence HF radars: Analysis using simultaneous MF and VHF radar data, Annales Geophysicae, 22, 4049-4059.
Andrew J. Dowdy, Robert A. Vincent, Damian J. Murphy, Masaki Tsutsumi, Dsnnis M. Riggin, and Martin J. Harvis (2004): The large-scale dynamics of the mesosphere-lower thermosphere during the Southern Hemisphere stratospheric warming of 2002, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, 2004GL020282.
M. Tsutsumi and T. Aso, (2005): MF radar observations of meteors and meteor-derived winds at Syowa (69S, 39E), Antarctica: a comparison with simultaneous spaced antenna wnds, J. Geophys. Res., 110, doi:10.1029/2005JD005849.
D. J. Murphy, J. M. Forbes, R. L. Walterscheid, M. E. Hagan, S. K. Avery, T. Aso, G. J. Fraser, D. C. Fritts, M. J. Jarvis, A. J. McDonald, D. M. Riggin, M. Tsutsumi, and R. A. Vincent (2006): A Climatology of Tides in the Antarctic Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2005JD006803.
Digital Object Identifier(DOI)
Creator Masaki Tsutsumi
Publisher National Institute of Polar Research
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