SA41D:
Chemistry and Dynamics of the Meosphere and Lower Thermosphere of Earth and Other Planets I

Session ID#: 3529

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
2016 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Richard L Collins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
Primary Convener:  Diego Janches, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Richard L Collins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Richard L Collins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • P - Planetary Sciences
  • SH - SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics
Index Terms:

0310 Airglow and aurora [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0341 Middle atmosphere: constituent transport and chemistry [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0343 Planetary atmospheres [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
3332 Mesospheric dynamics [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

On the Size of the Cosmic Dust Input to the Earth’s Atmosphere (Invited) (12053)
John M C Plane, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Wuhu Feng, University of Leeds, School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability, Leeds, United Kingdom, Juan Diego Carrillo-Sánchez, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, Diego Janches, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David Nesvorny, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, United States, Chester S Gardner, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - UIUC, Urbana, United States and Daniel Robert Marsh, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
Meteor Trails in the Lower Thermosphere: What Do Large Radars Really Detect? (13663)
Meers M Oppenheim and Yakov S Dimant, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States
Laboratory Micrometeroid/Dust Ablation Studies (13751)
Evan Thomas1, Mihaly Horanyi2, Diego Janches3, Tobin L Munsat4, John M C Plane5, Jonas Simolka4 and Zoltan Sternovsky6, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Leeds, School of Chemistry, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)University of Colorado, Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, Boulder, CO, United States
The Relative Roles of Dynamics and Energetic Particle Precipitation in Driving Variability of High-Latitude Mesospheric NOx (Invited) (4942)
Daniel Robert Marsh, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, Mark A. Clilverd, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Douglas Edward Kinnison, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory (ACOM), Boulder,CO, United States, Craig J Rodger, University of Otago, Department of Physics, Dunedin, New Zealand and Pekka T Verronen, Finnish Meteorological Inst., Helsinki, Finland
Effects of Two Large Solar Energetic Particle Events on Middle Atmosphere Nighttime Odd Hydrogen and Ozone Content (7624)
Mark Butala1, Olga P Verkhoglyadova1, Shuhui Wang2, Martin G Mlynczak3, Linda A Hunt4 and Gary Paul Zank5, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, (4)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Updated Chemical, Radiative, and Transport Properties of Thermospheric Odd Nitrogen (23332)
Justin D Yonker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States; Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Karthik Venkataramani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, Scott Martin Bailey, VA Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Wenbin Wang, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, United States, Stanley C Solomon, NCAR, HAO, Boulder, CO, United States and Cora E Randall, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Non-LTE Diagnostics of the IR Observations of Planetary Atmospheres (11693)
Alexander A Kutepov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Artem Feofilov, Ecole Polytechnique, LMD, Palaiseau Cedex, France and Ladislav Rezac, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Planetary, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
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