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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-1634</article-id>
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<article-title>The SuperDARN Meteor Wind Product: A 31-year archive with modeled altitude contributions and validation</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chartier</surname>
<given-names>Alex Timothy</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4215-031X</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Poffenbarger</surname>
<given-names>Ryan</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mesquita</surname>
<given-names>Rafael</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4681-8679</ext-link>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Janches</surname>
<given-names>Diego</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2">
<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Chau</surname>
<given-names>Jorge</given-names>
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<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff3">
<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Renkwitz</surname>
<given-names>Toralf</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0739-2655</ext-link>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Latteck</surname>
<given-names>Ralph</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0001-7473</ext-link>
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<sup>3</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Bristow</surname>
<given-names>William</given-names>
</name>
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<sup>4</sup>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA</addr-line>
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<label>2</label>
<addr-line>NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA</addr-line>
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<day>02</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>20</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Alex Timothy Chartier et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Radar echoes from meteor plasma trails constitute one of the main sources of observations of winds in the mesosphere-lower thermosphere. A new 31-year archive of meteor wind observations has been prepared from data taken at 38 Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) sites, covering 1993&amp;ndash;2024. These observations are not height-resolved, and so an empirical meteor model has been produced to estimate the altitude contribution function, in other words the meteor count distribution. The meteor count model RMSEs were estimated at 1.1 km for the peak height and 1.0 km for the full width at half maximum. Using the meteor model, the SuperDARN wind observations have been compared against nearby dedicated meteor radar data, and against JAWARA reanalysis winds. Two case-study comparisons were performed: one for the Andenes meteor radar versus Hankasalmi SuperDARN radar in 2008, and one for the McMurdo meteor radar versus McMurdo SuperDARN radar in 2019. The three datasets were found to be in reasonable agreement, with correlations ranging from 0.49&amp;ndash;0.88 for the comparison of SuperDARN against the meteor and 0.50 &amp;ndash; 0.72 for the comparison of SuperDARN against JAWARA. A summertime equatorward mean flow of 5&amp;ndash;15 m/s was identified in the northern hemisphere SuperDARN data, consistent with previous reports.</p>
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