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matter daytime or nighttime and are the so-called “LQP echoes”.(4) The spectral characteristics of the lower region echoes differ from daytime and nighttime.The mean Doppler velocities are more variant than those of the daytime and the spectralwidths are broader in the nighttime.(5) The upper region echoes appeared only in the nighttime <strong>with</strong> a maximum period between23 and 05 LT. Typical QP echoes detected here are similar to those observed atmid-latitudes.(6) Unlike the value close to zero of the mean radial velocities of the lower E region echoes,a downward velocity is noticed at the upper E region. Both the mean Doppler velocitiesand the spectral widths are found larger than those of the lower regions.Concluding remarksBy examining the 15-day data set gathered in the summer of 1998 and 1999, wepresent the morphological features of the E region FAI observed by the Gadanki radar. Wealso compare the features of the FAI echoes between Gadanki and Piura radars since thegeomagnetic latitude of these two radars are close. Although the morphological distributionand spectral characteristics are very similar for those FAI echoes, daytime echoes and theLQP echoes are rarely reported by Piura. It is suggested that the neutral winds may play arole in this discrepancy since those echoes usually occur at the altitudes below 100 km. It willbe very interesting to study how the neutral winds affect the lower region FAI echoes in thecoming communication.References:Chau, J.L. and R.F. Woodman, Low-latitude quasiperiodic echoes observed <strong>with</strong> the PiuraVHF radar in the E region, Geophys. Res. Lett, 26, 2167-2170, 1999.Choudhary,R.K., and K.K.Mahajan, Tropical E region field aligned irregularities:Simultaneous observations of continuous and QP echoes, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 2613-2619,1999.Fukao, S., M. Yamamoto, R.T.Tsunoda, H. Hayakawa,and T. Mukai, The SEEK (Sporadic EExperiment over Kyushu)campaign, Geophys. Res. Lett, 25, 1761-1764, 1998.Pan, C.J., and P.B.Rao, Low altitude quasi-periodic radar echoes observed by the GadankiVHF radar, Geophys. Res. Lett, 29, 25-1, 2002.Rao P B , A R Jain , P Kishore, P Balamuralidhar, S H Damle and G Viswanathan, IndianMST radar, 1, System description and sample wind measurements in ST mode, <strong>Radio</strong> Sci.,30, 1125, 1995.Tsunoda, R.T., S. Fukao, and M. Yamamoto, On the origin of quasi-periodic radarbackscatter from midlatitude sporadic E, <strong>Radio</strong> Sci, 29, 349-365, 1994.Woodman, R.F., M. Yamamoto, and S. Fukao, Gravity wave modulations of gradient driftinstabilities in midlatitude sporadic-E irregularities, Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 1197-1200,1991.Yamamoto, M., S. Fukao, R.F. Woodman, T. Ogawa, T. Tsuda, and S. Kato, MidlatitudeE-region field aligned irregularities observed <strong>with</strong> the MU radar, J. Geophys. Res., 96,15943-15949, 1991Woodman R F, Spectral moment estimation in MST radars, <strong>Radio</strong> Sci.,20, 1185, 1985.117

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