Article
Meteor Trail Advection Observed During the 1998 Leonid Shower
Geophysical Research Letters
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
7-1-2000
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Abstract/Description
Sodium resonance lidar observations of meteor trails are reported from the 1998 Leonid shower experimental at the Starfire Optical Range Kirtland Air Force Base, NM (35.0º N, 106.5º W ). The lidar was operating in a spatially scanning mode that allowed tracking for up to one half-hour. Three trails are presented here whose motion allowed inference of radial as well as vector wind components and apparent diffusivities. The winds are derived independently using the narrow linewidth sodium (Na) resonance Doppler lidar technique and are compared with the tracking results.
Citation Information
Brent W. Grime, Timothy J. Kane, Alan Liu, George Papen, et al.. "Meteor Trail Advection Observed During the 1998 Leonid Shower" Geophysical Research Letters Vol. 27 Iss. 13 (2000) p. 1819 - 1822 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alanliu/47/