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ATRAD installations

Svalbard, Norway

Radar site location: 78N, 16E

Radars present:


Broadband meteor radar

Specifications

Customer: National Institure for Polar Research (NIPR, Japan), Tromso Geophysical Obervatory (TGO, Norway)
Mode: Six receiver Broadband meteor radar
Frequency range:2 - 60 MHz
Operating frequency:31 MHz
Peak Power (kW): 7.5 (10% duty cycle)
Installation date: March 2001
ATRAD supplied:all components
Web sites: TGO/NIPR meteor radar Home page, TGO Home page, NIPR Home page

References

D. A. Holdsworth and I. M. Reid,
The Buckland Park meteor radar - description and initial result,
Accepted for publication in the Workshop on Applications of Radio Science proceedings, 2002
See initial preprint (355kB download, ZIP'ed PDF file)
C. M. Hall, T. Aso and M. Tsustumi,
An examination of high latitude upper mesosphere dynamic stability using the Nippon/Norway Svalbard meteor radar,
Geophysical Research Letters, vol 29, number 8, p121.