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Recent Advances in MST and EISCAT/Ionospheric Studies – Special Issue of the Joint MST15 and EISCAT18 Meetings, May 2017

Edited by: Mamoru Yamamoto, Wayne K. Hocking, Satonori Nozawa, Juha Vierinen, Huixin Liu, Nozomu Nishitani

This special issue calls for papers from the joint meetings of the Fifteenth Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MST Radar (MST15/iMST2) and the Eighteenth EISCAT Symposium (EISCAT18) held in Tokyo, Japan, during May 26-31, 2017. The MST Workshops are the primary international meetings on the applications and development of MST radars. The EISCAT Symposium is the biennial conference for EISCAT-related radar research and science. May 2017 joint meeting was a timely opportunity for close and extensive interactions of the middle-atmosphere and ionospheric radar scientists in our era of rapid technological changes and computational advances. We solicit papers of all styles (letter/full paper/technical report). 

  2. Results from the first VHF profiler research radar in Costa Rica, operating at a central radar frequency of 46.6 MHz, are presented. Emphasis has been on studies of scattering layers detected in the altitude r...

    Authors: Marcial Garbanzo-Salas and Wayne Hocking
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2019 71:6
    Content type: Frontier letter Published on:

  6. High-latitude, small-scale plasma density irregularities are observed by the Advanced Land Observation Satellite 2, Phase Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar-2 and the European Incoherent Scatter radar ...

    Authors: Hiroatsu Sato, Jun Su Kim, Norbert Jakowski and Ingemar Häggström
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:163
    Content type: Frontier letter Published on:

  7. On June 11, 2015, a train of large-amplitude Kelvin–Helmholtz (KH) billows was monitored by the Middle and Upper Atmosphere (MU) radar (Shigaraki MU Observatory, Japan) at the altitude of ~ 6.5 km. Four to fiv...

    Authors: Hubert Luce, Lakshmi Kantha, Masanori Yabuki and Hiroyuki Hashiguchi
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:162
    Content type: Full paper Published on:

  10. Polar mesosphere winter echoes (PMWE) were observed at 70 km over Tromsø, Norway, on 8 January 2014 using the tristatic configuration of the European incoherent scatter VHF radar. For the interval 11:00–13:00 ...

    Authors: Evgenia Belova, Maria Kawnine, Ingemar Häggström, Tima Sergienko, Sheila Kirkwood and Anders Tjulin
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:110
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  11. Based on experimental observations with EISCAT VHF radar during the summer period, July 8–12, 2013, the observations of polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE) in the absence of particle precipitation indicate t...

    Authors: Abdur Rauf, Hailong Li, Safi Ullah, Lin Meng, Bin Wang and Maoyan Wang
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:108
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  12. We report a brief survey of matching conditions for artificial aurora optical experiments utilizing the second electron gyro-harmonic (2.7-MHz frequency) in F region heating with O-mode at the EISCAT Tromsø site ...

    Authors: T. T. Tsuda, M. T. Rietveld, M. J. Kosch, S. Oyama, Y. Ogawa, K. Hosokawa, S. Nozawa, T. Kawabata and A. Mizuno
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:94
    Content type: Technical report Published on:

  15. We compare hourly averaged neutral winds derived from two meteor radars operating at 33.2 and 55 MHz to estimate the errors in these measurements. We then compare the meteor radar winds with those from a mediu...

    Authors: Iain M. Reid, Daniel L. McIntosh, Damian J. Murphy and Robert A. Vincent
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:84
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  16. We report a brief survey on conditions for artificial aurora optical experiments in F region heating with O-mode at the EISCAT Tromsø site using dynasonde data from 2000 to 2017. The results obtained in our surve...

    Authors: T. T. Tsuda, M. T. Rietveld, M. J. Kosch, S. Oyama, K. Hosokawa, S. Nozawa, T. Kawabata, A. Mizuno and Y. Ogawa
    Citation: Earth, Planets and Space 2018 70:40
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