Abstract

<p>We analyze dataset of infrasound observations from surface military explosions in northern Finland which occur yearly in August and September since 1988. The transient nature of these events allows for identification of returns reflected (or scattered) both from stratospheric and from mesospheric - lower thermospheric (MLT) altitudes. The  infrasound data were recorded at Norwegian infrasound-array station around 200 km north of the explosion site. In this study, we use the measured travel-time and backazimuth deviation of the arriving infrasound wavefronts to estimate snapshots of the MLT cross-wind averaged along the propagation path. The spatial extent of that averaging process is explored, and the MLT wind estimates retrieved from infrasound data are presented and compared against high-top atmospheric model winds.</p>

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