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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS, VOL. 27, NO. 13, PAGES 1819–1822, 2000

Meteor Trail Advection Observed During the 1998 Leonid Shower

Brent W. Grime

Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania


Timothy J. Kane

Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania


Alan Liu

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois


George Papen

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois


Chester S. Gardner

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois


Michael C. Kelley

Department of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York


Craig Kruschwitz

Department of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York


Jack Drummond

Air Force Research Lab, Starfire Optical Range, Kirtland AFB, New Mexico


Abstract

Sodium resonance lidar observations of meteor trails are reported from the 1998 Leonid shower experiment at the Starfire Optical Range, Kirtland Air Force Base, NM (35.0° N, 106.5° 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.

Received 19 October 1999; accepted 28 December 1999.

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Citation: Grime, B. W., T. J. Kane, A. Liu, G. Papen, C. S. Gardner, M. C. Kelley, C. Kruschwitz, and J. Drummond (2000), Meteor Trail Advection Observed During the 1998 Leonid Shower, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27(13), 1819–1822.