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MARA – Moveable atmospheric radar for Antarctica

Technical description

Data plots 18 January – 5 February 2007

High-resolution PMSE

PMSE, winds and correlation times 80-90 km

Tropospheric data

Data plots 4 December 2007 - 1 February 2008

PMSE

Troposphere (pdf file, 2.6 MB)

Data plots 23 December 2009 - 27 January 2010

Dec 23-31

Jan 1-12

Jan 13-27

PMSE dec

PMSE jan

Data plots 14 December 2010 - 12 January 2011

PMSE data:
14-18 Dec 2010
18-22 Dec 2010
22-26 Dec 2010
26-30 Dec 2010
30 Dec 2010 - 03 Jan 2011
03-07 Jan 2011
07-11 Jan 2011
11-12 Jan 2011

Tropospheric data:
14-18 Dec 2010
18-22 Dec 2010
22-26 Dec 2010
26-30 Dec 2010
30 Dec 2010 - 03 Jan 2011
03-07 Jan 2011
07-11 Jan 2011
11-12 Jan 2011

Data plots 23 November 2011 - 2012

PMSE data:
23-27 Nov 2011
27 Nov - 1 Dec 2011
1-5 Dec 2011
5-9 Dec 2011
9-13 Dec 2011
13-17 Dec 2011
17-21 Dec 2011
21-25 Dec 2011

Tropospheric data:
23-27 Nov 2011
27 Nov - 1 Dec 2011
1-5 Dec 2011
5-9 Dec 2011
9-13 Dec 2011
13-17 Dec 2011
17-21 Dec 2011
21-25 Dec 2011

MARA publications in refereed journals

Kirkwood, S., Hervig, M., Belova, E., and Osepian, A., Quantitative relation between PMSE and ice mass density, Annales Geophysicae, 28, 1333-1343, doi:10.5194/angeo-28-1333-2010, 2010. [html]

Kirkwood, S., Belova, E., Satheesan, K., Narayana Rao, T., Rajendra Prasad, T., and Satheesh Kumar, S., Fresnel scatter revisited – comparison of 50 MHz radar and radiosondes in the Arctic, the Tropics and Antarctica, Annales Geophysicae, 28, 1993-2005, doi:10.5194/angeo-28-1993-2010, 2010. [html]

Valkonen, T., T. Vihma, S. Kirkwood, M. Johansson, Fine-scale model simulation of gravity waves generated by Basen nunatak in Antarctica, in press Tellus A, DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0870.2010.00443.x, in press March 2010 [ Full Article]

Virkkula, A., E. Asmi, K. Teinilä, A. Frey, M. Aurela, H. Timonen, T. Mäkelä, A. Samuli, R. Hillamo, P.P. Aalto, S. Kirkwood, M. Kulmala, Review of aerosol research in Aboa and the surroundings, Geophysica, 45 (1-2), 163-181, 2009. [ Full Article]

Nilsson, H., S. Kirkwood, R. J Morris, R. Latteck, A. R. Klekociuk, D. J.Murphy, M. Zecha, and E. Belova, Simultaneous observations of Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes at two different latitudes in Antarctica, Ann. Geophys., 26, 3783-3792, 2008. [ Full Article]

Kirkwood, S., H. Nilsson, R. J. Morris, A. R. Klekociuk, D. A. Holdsworth, N. J. Mitchell. A new height for the summer mesopause – Antarctica, December 2007, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L23810, doi: 10.1029/2008GL035915, 2008. [ Full Article]

Kirkwood, S., I. Wolf, H. Nilsson, P. Dalin, D. Mikhaylova, and E. Belova,
Polar mesosphere summer echoes at Wasa, Antarctica (73°S):
First observations and comparison with 68°N, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L15803,
doi:10.1029/2007GL, 2007. [ Full Article in GRL]

MARA Publications : ‘under review’



Other MARA Publications

Kirkwood, S, MARA – Moveable atmospheric radar for Antarctica, Proceedings of the MST11 Workshop on Technical and Scientific Aspects of MSR radar, in Gadanki/Tirupati, India 11-15 December. Ed. V.K. Anandan, Macmillan India Ltd, New Delhi, p224-226, 2007

Kirkwood, Sheila, Hans Nilsson, Ingemar Wolf, Peter Dalin, Daria Mikhaylova, Evgenia Belova,, MARA – Moveable atmospheric radar for Antarcica, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat Yearbook 2007, pp. 61-65.[ Full Article]

Kirkwood, Sheila, Evgenia Belova, Peter Dalin, Daria Mikhaylova, Hans Nilsson, Ingemar Wolf, MARA – Atmospheric radar at Wasa/Aboa Antarcica, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat Yearbook 2008, pp. 24-25.[ Full Article]

Virkkula, A., E. Asmi, S. Kirkwood, R. Hillamo, M. Kulmala, vertical transport of particles and ozone at an Antarctic site, Extended Abstract for the 18th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols, Prague, August 2009.
Updated 2011-11-09, webmaster*irf.se