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Southern‐hemisphere PMSE: Where are they?
Author(s) -
Balsley B. B.,
Woodman R. F.,
Sarango M.,
Urbina J.,
Rodriguez R.,
Ragaini E.,
Carey J.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/93gl02244
Subject(s) - mesosphere , southern hemisphere , latitude , geology , northern hemisphere , climatology , polar , atmospheric sciences , oceanography , geodesy , stratosphere , physics , astronomy
We report a surprising absence of PMSE (Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes) in VHF radar observations of the southern summer high‐latitude mesosphere. Our observations cover about twenty days during January‐February, 1993, from King George Island, Antarctica.