SA43C:
Frontiers in Global Change in the Middle Atmosphere and Its Coupling to the Lower Atmosphere I

Session ID#: 2481

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2016 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Xun Zhu, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Xun Zhu, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Ming Cai, Florida State University, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Tallahassee, FL, United States and Jae N. Lee, University of Maryland Baltimore County/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jae N Lee, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0342 Middle atmosphere: energy deposition [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
3334 Middle atmosphere dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Global Distribution of CO2 Volume Mixing Ratio in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere and Long-Term Changes Observed By Saber (6133)
Ladislav Rezac1,2, James M Russell III2, Jia Yue3, Yongxiao Jian2, Alexander A Kutepov4, Rolando R Garcia5, Kaley A Walker6 and Peter F Bernath7, (1)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Planetary, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (2)Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NSF NCAR, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Toronto, Department of Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada, (7)Old Dominion University, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Norfolk, VA, United States
Interpreting Recent Global-Mean Temperature Changes in the Lower Stratosphere Simulated by Climate Models (14452)
Tiehan Zhou, CCSR / NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States, Marvin Alan Geller, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, United States, William G. K. Martin, Columbia University, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, Hua Song, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, United States, Shuguang Wang, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Larissa Nazarenko, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States and Kwok-Wai Ken Lo, Trinnovim LLC, New York, United States
The Future of the Stratosphere and the Ozone Layer (Invited) (6822)
Paul A Newman1, Luke Oman2, Steven Pawson3, Eric L Fleming4, Feng Li5 and Charles H Jackman4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 610, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Goddard Earth Science Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States
MLT Dynamics Related to Major Sudden Stratospheric Warming Events (Invited) (5134)
Var Limpasuvan, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, United States, Yvan J Orsolini, Norwegian Institute for Air Research, Kjeller, Norway; University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Bergen, Norway, Amal Chandran, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Anchorage, AK, United States, Rolando R Garcia, NSF NCAR, Boulder, United States and Douglas Edward Kinnison, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
Why Does a CO2 Increase Cool the Stratosphere? (Invited) (5376)
Sergio Sejas, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Neutral Air Density Variations Derived from Specular Meteor Echo Observation Spanning One Solar Cycle (7157)
Gunter Stober1, Vivien Wendt1, Jorge Luis Chau1 and Peter Brown2, (1)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (2)University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
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