Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net 1680-7367 1680-7375 7 3 2007 10.5194/acpd-7-6573-2007 http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/7/6573/2007/ http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/7/6573/2007/acpd-7-6573-2007.html http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/7/6573/2007/acpd-7-6573-2007.pdf 6573 6601 2007-05-16 A long-term comparison of wind and tide measurements in the upper mesosphere recorded with an imaging Doppler interferometer and SuperDARN radar at Halley, Antarctica R. E. Hibbins rehi@bas.ac.uk M. J. Jarvis Physical Sciences Division, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK Data from a co-located imaging Doppler interferometer and SuperDARN radar recorded since 1996 have been analysed in a consistent manner to determine daily mean winds and tides in the upper mesosphere. By comparing only days when both techniques were recording good quality data it is shown that the SuperDARN radar winds and tides correlate best with the IDI height bin 90–95 km. On timescales of one hour the winds derived from each technique correlate poorly, whereas the daily mean winds are in much better agreement suggesting that the two radars are sensitive to different parts of the gravity wave spectrum. Regression analysis reveals that the observed SuperDARN daily mean meridional wind strength is approximately 65% that recorded by the IDI while the zonal winds are of similar magnitude, in good quantitative agreement with previous studies which have shown contamination to SuperDARN-derived winds due to the significant back lobe of the radar radiation pattern. 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