EGU21-14635
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14635
EGU General Assembly 2021
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Validation of multi-static meteor radar analysis using realistic mesospheric dynamics from UA-ICON model: Reliability of gradients and vertical velocities

Harikrishnan Charuvil Asokan1, Jorge Luis Chau1, Juan Federico Conte1, Gerd Baumgarten1, Juha Vierinen2, and Sebastian Borchert3
Harikrishnan Charuvil Asokan et al.
  • 1Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany (hari@iap-kborn.de)
  • 2Department of Physics and Technology, University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
  • 3Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, Germany

Specular meteor radars (SMRs) are a major ground-based instrument to study the mesosphere and the lower thermosphere (MLT) dynamics. The recently developed multi-static approach of SMRs allows maximising the number of measurements from different viewing angles, hence enabling the estimation of horizontal wind fields and their second-order statistics (power spectrum, momentum fluxes). We have installed the operational versions of these techniques in Germany, Peru and Argentina, called SIMONe (Spread-spectrum Interferometric Multistatic meteor radar Observing Network) systems. Here, we present a validation study of multi-static meteor radar analysis by using virtual radar systems on the upper-atmosphere extension of the ICOsahedral Non-hydrostatic (UA-ICON) general circulation model with a horizontal grid spacing of 5 km. This particular study is focusing on the estimates of gradients and vertical velocities with these multi-static systems.

How to cite: Charuvil Asokan, H., Luis Chau, J., Conte, J. F., Baumgarten, G., Vierinen, J., and Borchert, S.: Validation of multi-static meteor radar analysis using realistic mesospheric dynamics from UA-ICON model: Reliability of gradients and vertical velocities, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-14635, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14635, 2021.

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