SA44A:
Ice Layers in the Mesopause Region: Their Physics, Relationship to the Environment in Which They Form, and Response to External Forcings II

Session ID#: 3457

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
2016 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  James M Russell III, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States and Scott Martin Bailey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Primary Convener:  James M Russell III, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
Co-Convener:  Scott Martin Bailey, VA Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Scott Martin Bailey, VA Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Index Terms:

0319 Cloud optics [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0320 Cloud physics and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0340 Middle atmosphere: composition and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3334 Middle atmosphere dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

SA44A-01
Modeling and observations of PMC/NLC in the mesopause region (12466)
Uwe Berger1, Franz-Josef Luebken1 and Gerd Baumgarten2, (1)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (2)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Kühlungsborn, Germany
SA44A-02
The Roles of Greenhouse Gas and Solar Cycle Forcing on the Interannual Variability of Temperature and Ice Layers near the Mesopause Region (26030)
Scott Martin Bailey1, Brentha Thurairajah1, James M Russell III2, Cora E Randall3, Mark Eugene Hervig4 and David E Siskind5, (1)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (2)Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)GATS Inc., Driggs, United States, (5)Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC, United States
SA44A-03
Two-day period fluctuation of PMC occurrence over Syowa Station, Antarctica observed by a ground-based lidar and AIM satellite. (22251)
Hidehiko Suzuki, Meiji University, Kanagawa, Japan, Takuji Nakamura, National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Japan, Masaki Tsutsumi, SOKENDAI Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Kanagawa, Japan, Mitsumu K Ejiri, National Inst of Polar Res., Tokyo, Japan, Yoshihiro Tomikawa, NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, Makoto Abo, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, Takuya Kawahara, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, Takuo T Tsuda, NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan and Takanori Nishiyama, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan
SA44A-04
Stratospheric Impact on the Onset of the Mesospheric Ice Season (10021)
Jens Fiedler1, Gerd Baumgarten2, Uwe Berger3, Axel Gabriel3, Ralph Latteck4 and Franz-Josef Luebken3, (1)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock, Optical and Rocket Soundings, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (2)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), Kühlungsborn, Germany, (3)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (4)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock, Radar Remote Sensing, Kühlungsborn, Germany
SA44A-05
Interhemispheric Coupling in AIM/CIPS in Dec 2013/Jan 2014: A Connection to Cold Air Outbreaks? (17535)
Laura Angelina Holt1, Cora E Randall2,3, V Lynn Harvey4, Jeff France2, Joshua Pettit3,4, Jerry D Lumpe5, James M Russell III6 and Scott Martin Bailey7, (1)NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)Computational Physics, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)VA Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States
SA44A-06
Drivers of PMC Variability from SOFIE and the Implications for Long-Term PMC Change from SBUV (26864)
Mark Eugene Hervig, GATS Inc., Driggs, United States and Michael H Stevens, Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, United States
SA44A-07
Gravity Waves in the Polar Stratosphere and Mesosphere and Their Relations with Ice Cloud Observed Sofie/AIM (7697)
Xiao Liu1,2, Jia Yue3, Jiyao Xu4, Ling Wang5, Wei Yuan1, James M Russell III6 and Mark Eugene Hervig7, (1)National Space Science Center, Beijing, China, (2)Henan Normal University, College of Mathematics and Information Science, XinXiang, China, (3)GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, United States, (4)National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)GATS Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)GATS Inc., Driggs, United States
SA44A-08
Laboratory Measurements on Heterogeneous Nucleation and Growth of Water Vapor on Meteor Smoke Particle Analogues under Conditions of the Mesopause (15598)
Denis Duft, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, Mario Nachbar, University of Heidelberg, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, Henrike Wilms, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, Markus Rapp, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and Thomas Leisner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
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