CONDOR Meteor Radar Publications
The CONDOR multi-static meteor radar system provides continuous measurements of mesospheric winds and dynamics. Research using this data is published in leading peer-reviewed journals.
Lieberman, Ruth S., Stober, Gunter, Becker, Erich, Janches, Diego, Ma, Jun, and Liu, Alan "Two-Day Wave Modulation of Gravity Wave Momentum Fluxes Observed Over South America," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 130, 2025. doi: 10.1029/2024JD042788
Qiao, Zishun, Liu, Alan Z., Stober, Gunter, Fuentes, J., Vargas, F., Adami, C. L., and Reid, I. M. "Chilean Observation Network De Meteor Radars (CONDOR): multi-static system configuration and wind comparison with co-located lidar," Atmos. Meas. Tech. 18, pp. 1091--1104, 2025. doi: 10.5194/amt-18-1091-2025
Chau, Jorge L., Poblet, Facundo L., Liu, Hanli, Liu, Alan, Gulbrandsen, Njål, Jacobi, Christoph, Rodriguez, Rodolfo R., Scipion, Danny, and Tsutsumi, Masaki "Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Wind Perturbations Due To the 2022 Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Eruption as Observed by Multistatic Specular Meteor Radars," Radio Sci. 59, pp. e2024RS008013, 2024. doi: 10.1029/2024RS008013
Dawkins, E. C. M., Janches, D., Stober, G., Carrillo-Sánchez, J. D., Lieberman, R. S., Jacobi, C., Moffat-Griffin, T., Mitchell, N. J., Cobbett, N., Batista, P. P., Andrioli, V. F., Buriti, R. A., Murphy, D. J., Kero, J., Gulbrandsen, N., Tsutsumi, M., Kozlovsky, A., Lester, M., Kim, J.-H., Lee, C., Liu, A., Fuller, B., O'Connor, D., Palo, S. E., Taylor, M. J., Marino, J., and Rainville, N. "Seasonal and Local Time Variation in the Observed Peak of the Meteor Altitude Distributions by Meteor Radars," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 129, pp. e2024JD040978, 2024. doi: 10.1029/2024JD040978
Stober, Gunter, Liu, Alan, Kozlovsky, Alexander, Qiao, Zishun, Krochin, W., Shi, G., Kero, J., Tsutsumi, M., Gulbrandsen, N., Nozawa, S., Lester, M., Baumgarten, K., Belova, E., and Mitchell, N. "Identifying gravity waves launched by the Hunga Tonga--Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption in mesosphere/lower-thermosphere winds derived from CONDOR and the Nordic Meteor Radar Cluster," Ann. Geophys. 41, pp. 197--208, 2023. doi: 10.5194/angeo-41-197-2023
Poblet, Facundo L., Chau, Jorge L., Conte, J. Federico, Vierinen, Juha, Suclupe, Jose, Liu, Alan, and Rodriguez, Rodolfo R. "Extreme Horizontal Wind Perturbations in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Over South America Associated With the 2022 Hunga Eruption," Geophys. Res. Lett. 50, 2023. doi: 10.1029/2023gl103809
Cheng, Hao, Huang, Kai Ming, Liu, Alan Z., Zhang, Shao Dong, Huang, Chun Ming, and Gong, Yun "Wavenumbers 3 and 4 Quasi 2-day Wave Activities Observed by Multiple Meteor Radars in the Two Hemispheres During Austral Summer," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 127, pp. e2022JA030501, 2022. doi: 10.1029/2022JA030501
Stober, Gunter, Liu, Alan, Kozlovsky, Alexander, Qiao, Zishun, Kuchar, Ales, Jacobi, Christoph, Meek, Chris, Janches, Diego, Liu, Guiping, Tsutsumi, Masaki, Gulbrandsen, Njal, Nozawa, Satonori, Lester, Mark, Belova, Evgenia, Kero, Johan, and Mitchell, Nicholas "Meteor radar vertical wind observation biases and mathematical debiasing strategies including the 3DVAR+DIV algorithm," Atmos. Meas. Tech. 15, pp. 5769--5792, 2022. doi: 10.5194/amt-15-5769-2022
Vargas, Fabio, Liu, Alan Z, Swenson, Gary R., Segura, Carlos, Vega, P., Fuentes, J., Pautet, D., Taylor, M., Zhao, Yucheng, Morton, Y., and Bourne, H. "Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Changes Associated With the 2 July 2019 Total Eclipse in South America Over the Andes Lidar Observatory, Cerro Pachon, Chile," J. Geophys. Res. Atmos. 127, pp. e2021JD035064, 2022. doi: 10.1029/2021JD035064
Stober, Gunter, Kozlovsky, Alexander, Liu, Alan, Qiao, Zishun, Tsutsumi, M., Hall, C., Nozawa, S., Lester, M., Belova, E., Kero, J., Espy, P. J., Hibbins, R. E., and Mitchell, N. "Atmospheric tomography using the Nordic Meteor Radar Cluster and Chilean Observation Network De Meteor Radars: network details and 3D-Var retrieval," Atmos. Meas. Tech. 14, pp. 6509--6532, 2021. doi: 10.5194/amt-14-6509-2021
Tian, Caixia, Hu, Xiong, Liu, Alan Z., Yan, Zhaoai, Xu, Qingchen, Cai, Bing, and Yang, Junfeng "Diurnal and seasonal variability of short-period gravity waves at ~40°N using meteor radar wind observations," Adv. Space Res. 68, pp. 1341--1355, 2021. doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2021.03.028