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Report on Session I.5 “Operational aspects and recent systemdevelopments”Conveners: I. Reid and D. ThorsenA total of eleven oral and fifteen poster presentations were given. A wide range of topicswere covered, showing a mature but active area, <strong>with</strong> the emergence of operationalnetworks being a highlight. New systems continue to be produced, and existing systems tobe upgraded. New analysis techniques continue to be applied to existing systems, resultingin access to new parameters. Status reports on the meteorological networks in Japan(WINDAS) and Europe (CWINDE) were provided. It was noted that the future of the USPro<strong>file</strong>r Network was uncertain. New radars in Indonesia (the EAR VHF Radar), Norway(the SAURA HF Radar), Antarctica (the Davis Station VHF Radar), Canada (the McGillVHF Radar), Peru (the SOUSY VHF Radar at Jicarmarca, and two new VHF BLT systemsfor ENSO Studies) and France (the CURIE X-Band FMCW Miniradar) were described.New applications of existing radars including the application of the SuperDARN type radarto meteor studies, and of MF radars to meteor work, were outlined by Masaki Tsutsumi.Updates on existing facilities, including a report on the first decade of operation of theIndian MST radar, and a description of the NERC Radar Facility at Aberystwyth, wereprovided. The reapplication of the DAE technique at MF for estimation of electrondensities in the ionospheric D-region was described in a paper by Rupa Vuthaluru.Descriptions of new sub-system developments were provided. These included new digitalreceivers (Woodman and Michhue), electronic beamforming (Net et al.), and on-lineadaptive DC-clutter removal (Röttger). Calibration of radar systems using disdrometers wasdescribed by Clark et al., and by Petitdidier and Kafando.30

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