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EISCAT AND SOUSY SVALBARD RADAR OBSERVATIONSOF PMSE – DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIESJ. Röttger 1 , K. Kubo 2 and S. Fukao 21Max-Planck-Institut, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany2<strong>Radio</strong> Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Uji, Kyoto, JapanThe EISCAT Svalbard Radar (ESR) operates on 500 MHz; collocated (at a distance of 1.5 km)<strong>with</strong> it is the SOUSY Svalbard Radar (SSR), which operates on 53.5 MHz. We have usedboth radars during PMSE coherent scatter conditions, where the ESR can also detectincoherent scatter and thus allows to estimate the electron density. We describe observationsof incoherent and coherent scatter during two observing periods in summer 1999 and 2000.As described in Röttger (2000) well calibrated signal power was obtained <strong>with</strong> both radars,from which we deduced the radar reflectivity. Estimating the turbulence dissipation rate fromthe narrow beam observations of PMSE <strong>with</strong> the ESR, using the estimate of the electrondensity and the radar reflectivity on both frequencies we can obtain estimates of the Schmidtnumber by comparing our observational results <strong>with</strong> the models. Schmidt numbers of at least100 are necessary to obtain the measured radar reflectivities, which basically support themodels, which claim that the inertial-viscous subrange in the electron gas can extend down tosmall scales of some ten centimeters (namely, the Bragg scale of the ESR).EISCAT Svalbard Radar incoherent scatter and PMSEFig. 1 Incoherent scatter (above 90 km) and coherent scatter (at 87.9 km)from Polar Mesosphere Summer Echoes (PMSE) observed <strong>with</strong> the500 MHz EISCAT Svalbard Radar. The upper plots show the height-timeintensity (left) and pro<strong>file</strong> of scatter (+ noise) amplitude on the right-handside. The lower 6 plots show the dynamic spectra (left) and spectra scatterplots (right). See Röttger (2000) for details.106

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