Articles | Volume 33, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-737-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-33-737-2015
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16 Jun 2015
Regular paper |  | 16 Jun 2015

A comparison of overshoot modelling with observations of polar mesospheric summer echoes at radar frequencies of 56 and 224 MHz

O. Havnes, H. Pinedo, C. La Hoz, A. Senior, T. W. Hartquist, M. T. Rietveld, and M. J. Kosch

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