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Possible use of television broadcasting signals for wind measurements by the meteor radiolocation method – main theoretical aspects and results of first experiments

The possibility of using terrestrial television (TV) broadcast signals (TVBS) as sounding signals for mesosphere-lower thermosphere (MLT) wind measurements by the radio meteor method is investigated. Such approach allows to use external TV transmitters as sounding signal sources and consequently to reduce costs of measurements. It is shown that meteor trails in the area above the receiver should be selected to eliminate MLT wind measurement ambiguity. Results of experimental observations are presented. Validation of the results has been performed using datasets from the Thermosphere-Ionosphere- Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite and a SKiYMET meteor radar (Collm Observatory, Germany). It is shown that the obtained experimental results and TIMED mean winds are correlated with a correlation coefficient of 0.58 (significance level 0.95 according to a t-test). The measurements show for the first time that terrestrial television broadcast signals can be used for MLT wind measurements and that the developed technique may be used for MLT wind monitoring on the base of the existing terrestrial TV broadcasting network.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:16406
Date29 September 2017
CreatorsKukush, V., Jacobi, Christoph, Oleynikov, A.
ContributorsUniversität Leipzig, Universität Leipzig
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageGerman, German
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relationurn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-212056, qucosa:15000

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