Meteor Radar Observations

The Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR)

Daily Operations

CMOR is a highly automated radar. Each day, automatically generated state of health data, plots and initial data summaries are produced and emailed to users. This high fidelity reporting capability allows CMOR to stay on the air with a duty cycle in excess of 95%. An example of the daily output summaries from CMOR is shown below for the 2009 Geminid shower peak:

Daily sporadic and shower fluxes and equivalent daily averaged ZHRs are computed

Additionally, the numbers of measured orbits per hour and the strength of the remote station UHF links are computed and link strength is displayed graphically:

UTC count      Zehr     Thames     Gerber  Thames-Zehr Gerber-Zehr 
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 all  5163    41.6 dB    30.3 dB    30.7 dB   -11.2 dB   -10.9 dB   
   0    88    42.4 dB    29.4 dB    32.1 dB   -13.0 dB   -10.3 dB   
   1   137    42.6 dB    30.1 dB    31.8 dB   -12.5 dB   -10.8 dB   
   2   166    43.6 dB    31.0 dB    32.1 dB   -12.5 dB   -11.5 dB   
   3   212    43.2 dB    30.7 dB    32.0 dB   -12.5 dB   -11.1 dB   
   4   267    42.7 dB    30.7 dB    31.3 dB   -12.1 dB   -11.4 dB   
   5   268    40.5 dB    29.2 dB    29.1 dB   -11.3 dB   -11.4 dB   
   6   162    40.7 dB    29.2 dB    30.2 dB   -11.4 dB   -10.5 dB   
   7   227    41.0 dB    29.4 dB    29.4 dB   -11.6 dB   -11.6 dB   
   8   293    41.3 dB    29.9 dB    29.5 dB   -11.4 dB   -11.7 dB   
   9   455    41.1 dB    30.6 dB    30.0 dB   -10.5 dB   -11.1 dB   
  10   474    41.2 dB    30.7 dB    30.9 dB   -10.5 dB   -10.3 dB   
  11   431    41.7 dB    30.8 dB    31.1 dB   -10.8 dB   -10.6 dB   
  12   418    41.7 dB    30.4 dB    30.9 dB   -11.3 dB   -10.8 dB   
  13   350    42.4 dB    30.9 dB    31.8 dB   -11.5 dB   -10.6 dB   
  14   287    41.5 dB    30.8 dB    31.1 dB   -10.8 dB   -10.5 dB   
  15   219    41.3 dB    29.9 dB    30.5 dB   -11.4 dB   -10.8 dB   
  16   155    41.1 dB    30.9 dB    30.8 dB   -10.3 dB   -10.3 dB   
  17   131    40.2 dB    30.4 dB    29.6 dB    -9.8 dB   -10.6 dB   
  18   109    40.2 dB    30.2 dB    29.7 dB   -10.0 dB   -10.5 dB   
  19    86    40.9 dB    30.4 dB    30.6 dB   -10.5 dB   -10.3 dB   
  20    75    40.9 dB    29.5 dB    29.7 dB   -11.3 dB   -11.2 dB   
  21    37    39.1 dB    28.1 dB    28.2 dB   -11.0 dB   -10.9 dB   
  22    46    43.0 dB    30.5 dB    32.6 dB   -12.5 dB   -10.4 dB   
  23    70    40.9 dB    30.0 dB    31.7 dB   -10.9 dB    -9.3 dB   

The total number of recorded echoes per hourly bin over the previous two months is constantly updated in graphical form:

Radiant plots in equatorial coordinates of each days activity are also shown:

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