P51B:
Current Processes in the Atmosphere of Mars I Posters

Session ID#: 4538

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States and Armin Kleinboehl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Convener:  Armin Kleinboehl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Co-conveners:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States and Paul Ottinger Hayne, University of Colorado, Boulder, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
Index Terms:

0343 Planetary atmospheres [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5445 Meteorology [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Dust and Aerosols

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Radiometry: Phase Functions and the Optical Depth of Nocturnal Water Ice Clouds (10607)
Gregory A Neumann, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, Greenbelt, United States, Michael Kenneth Barker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Xiaoli Sun, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and MOLA Science Team
 
Restoration and Recalibration of the Viking MAWD Datasets (28666)
Raquel G. Nuno, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, David A Paige, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Mark Sullivan, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
A Revised Calibration Function and Results for the Phoenix Mission TECP Relative Humidity Sensor (31938)
Aaron Zent, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Seasonal and Spatial Distribution of Carbon Monoxide on Mars as Observed by CRISM (25484)
Michael J Smith, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
 
Limb Retrievals of the martian atmosphere: Mapping with optical observations from MGS/TES, MRO/MCS, and MRO/MARCI (23906)
Michael J Wolff, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, Robert Todd Clancy, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Michael J Smith, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States and Joshua L Bandfield, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Estimates of Horizontal Ionospheric Currents on the Dayside of Mars (14784)
Matthew O. Fillingim, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Robert J Lillis, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Dave A Brain, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
 
Observing Magnetic and Current Profiles of the Night side and Terminator of Mars through the Mars Global Surveyor Data (23600)
Nicole Ponce1, Matthew O. Fillingim2 and Alexander Lee Fogle1, (1)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
Analyzing Magnetic Field and Electrical Current Profiles of the Day Side and Terminator of Mars Using Data from Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) (30210)
Alexander Lee Fogle1, Nicole Ponce1 and Matthew O. Fillingim2, (1)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
A Search for Lightning in the Martian Ionosphere (17026)
Teresa M Esman, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Jared R Espley, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and John E P Connerney, Space Research Corporation, Annapolis, United States
 
Trajectories of air parcel motions in Mars' atmosphere computed using HYSPLIT. (26582)
Alison F C Bridger and David Bruggeman, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
 
Sensitivity of Simulated Martian Atmospheric Temperature to Prescribed Dust Opacity Distribution. Comparisons of Model Results With Reconstructed Data From Past Mars Missions (13346)
Murali Natarajan1, Alicia M Dwyer Cianciolo1, Thomas Duncan Fairlie1, Mark Ian Richardson2 and Timothy H McConnochie3, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
A Mars Dust Model with Interactive Dynamics, Radiation, and Microphysics (19158)
Victoria Hartwick, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States and Brian Toon, University of Colorado at Boulder, ATOC/LASP, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Using Engineering Cameras on Mars Landers and Rovers to Retrieve Atmospheric Dust Loading (27908)
Chris A Wolfe, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States and Mark T Lemmon, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States
 
An Application Using Triaxial Ellipsoids to Model Martian Dust at the Phoenix Landing Site (18375)
Emily L Mason, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States and Mark T Lemmon, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States
 
Climatology of Dust Lifting As Observed By the Mars Orbiter Camera (8535)
Scott Guzewich, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Laura Kulowski, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Huiqun Wang, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States and Anthony D Toigo, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Comparison of the Martian Polar Vortices in Data Assimilation Reanalyses and General Circulation Models (15850)
Darryn Waugh, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, Scott Guzewich, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Yuan Lian, Ashima Research, Pasadena, United States, Steven J Greybush, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, United States, Daniel Mitchell, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Timothy H McConnochie, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Luca Montabone, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, R John Wilson, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Anthony D Toigo, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Modeling variability in Mars' lower ionosphere (22253)
David J Pawlowski, Eastern Michigan University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Ypsilanti, MI, United States, Stephen W Bougher, University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States and Michelle Newkirk, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, United States
 
Monte Carlo Model Predictions of Energetic Ion Precipitation and Energy Deposition in the Martian Atmosphere (9825)
Rebecca Jolitz, University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Robert J Lillis, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Shannon Curry, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Christopher Dennis Parkinson, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States and Davin E Larson, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
 
The upper ionosphere of Mars: A comparison of Mariner 9 radio occultation and MARSIS measurements (18944)
Marissa F. Vogt, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, United States and Paul Withers, Boston University, Boston, United States
 
Does the Precipitation of Solar Wind Plasma Cause the Ionospheric Upwellings Detected by MARSIS on the Dayside of Mars? (28006)
Catherine Dieval1, David DeWitt Morgan2, David J Andrews3, Firdevs Duru4 and Donald A Gurnett2, (1)Lancaster University, Department of Physics, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (2)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (4)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
Oxygen Pickup Ions Measured by MAVEN: A Link to the Extended Exosphere of Mars (11728)
Ali Rahmati1, Thomas Cravens2, Davin E Larson3, Jane Lee Fox4, Stephen W Bougher5, Robert J Lillis6, Stephen A Ledvina3 and Patrick A Dunn3,6, (1)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Physics and Astronomy, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (4)Wright State University, Dayton, OH, United States, (5)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (6)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Survey of Mars Energetic O+ Ions Beyond the Induced Magnetospheric Boundary (22893)
Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Blake Christian Johnson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Markus Fraenz, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany and Stanislav V Barabash, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden
 
Atmospheric Waves in MGS TES Limb-Scan Temperatures (25592)
Donald J Banfield1, Barney J Conrath1, Monte s Kaelberer2 and Michael J Smith3, (1)Cornell University, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Rutgers University, New Brunswick, United States
 
The Effects of Thermal Tides and Dust on Traveling Waves in the Martian Atmosphere (10597)
Huiqun Wang, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States, Anthony D Toigo, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States and Mark Ian Richardson, Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Northern Late Winter Planetary Waves: MRO/MARCI Observations and Mars Climate Model Simulations (19712)
Jeffery L Hollingsworth1, Melinda A Kahre2, Robert Michael Haberle2 and Michael J Wolff3, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (3)Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States
 
Boundary Layer Regimes Conducive to Formation of Dust Devils on Mars (24842)
Bryce Williams, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Udaysankar S Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Interpretation of the Meteorological Gale Environment through Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) Observations and Mesoscale Modeling (MRAMS) (9747)
Jorge Pla-García1,2, Scot CR Rafkin3, Javier Gomez-Elvira4,5, Javier Martín-Torres6, María-Paz Zorzano5,7 and REMS/MSL Science Teams, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)Centro de Astrobiología, Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Payload & Space Science Department. Insituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Madrid, Spain, (5)INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, (6)Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain, (7)Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain
 
Pressure oscillations on the surface of Gale Crater and coincident observations of global circulation patterns. (18270)
Manuel de la Torre Juarez1, David M Kass2, Robert Michael Haberle3, Javier Gomez-Elvira4, Ari-Matti Harri5, Armin Kleinboehl6, Henrik Kahanpää5, Melinda A Kahre7, Mark T Lemmon8, Javier Martín-Torres9, Claire E Newman10, Scot CR Rafkin11, Jose A Rodriguez-Manfredi12, Veronica Peinado12, Ashwin R Vasavada13 and María-Paz Zorzano12, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, (5)Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (8)Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, (9)Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain, (10)Aeolis Research, Chandler, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain, (13)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
FISM-P: A Model of the Vacuum Ultraviolet Irradiance Spectrum for Atmospheric Studies at Mars and Beyond (24126)
Edward Thiemann1, Dr. Francis Gerard Eparvier, Ph.D.2 and Phillip C Chamberlin1, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
The Martian escape rate as a function of upstream solar conditions (29842)
Robin Ramstad1, Stas Barbash2, Yoshifumi Futaana2, Hans Nilsson2 and Mats Holmstrom2, (1)Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden
 
Energy Deposition and Escape Fluxes Induced by Energetic Solar Wind Ions and ENAs Precipitating into Mars Atmosphere: Accurate Consideration of Energy Transfer Collisions (28679)
Vasili Alex Kharchenko, UConn & Harvard-Smiths. CfA, Upton, MA, United States, Nicholas Lewkow, University of Connecticut, Somerville, MA, United States and Marko Gacesa, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
 
An Investigation of the Local Energetics of the Martian Atmosphere (13377)
Joseph Michael Battalio, Yale University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Haven, CT, United States and Istvan Szunyogh, Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Science, College Station, TX, United States
 
Long-Term Periodicity of the Mars Exospheric Density from MRO and Mars Odyssey Radio Tracking Data (14071)
Antonio Genova, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, Sander J Goossens, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Frank G Lemoine, NASA Goddard GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Erwan Mazarico, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David E Smith, Massachusetts Inst Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States and Maria T Zuber, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Experiments with Orbit-Spin Coupling Accelerations in a Mars General Circulation Model (10870)
Michael Mischna, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, James H Shirley, TORQUEFX, Simi Valley, United States and Claire E Newman, Aeolis Research, Chandler, United States
 
Secular Climate Change on Mars: An Update Using One Mars Year of MSL Pressure Data (19306)
Robert Michael Haberle1, Javier Gomez-Elvira2, Manuel de la Torre Juarez3, Ari-Matti Harri4, Jeffery L Hollingsworth1, Henrik Kahanpää4, Melinda A Kahre5, Mark T Lemmon6, Javier Martín-Torres7, Michael Mischna8, John E Moores9, Claire E Newman10, Scot CR Rafkin11, Nilton O Renno12, Mark Ian Richardson13, Jose A Rodriguez-Manfredi14, Peter Thomas15, Ashwin R Vasavada8, Michael H. Wong16, María-Paz Zorzano14 and REMS and MSL Science Teams, (1)NASA Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (6)Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States, (7)Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain, (8)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (9)York University, Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Toronto, ON, Canada, (10)Aeolis Research, Chandler, United States, (11)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (12)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (13)Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States, (14)Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain, (15)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (16)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Laboratory Experiments on Heterogeneous CO2 Ice Nucleation and Growth Rates on Meteor Smoke Particle Analogues in the Martian Mesosphere (15599)
Mario Nachbar1, Denis Duft2, Thomas Mangan3, Juan Carlos Gomez Martin3, John M C Plane3 and Thomas Leisner4, (1)University of Heidelberg, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
The Influence of the Martian Bow Shock on Heavy Planetary Ions (19566)
Blake Christian Johnson1, Michael Warren Liemohn2, Gabriella Stenberg Wieser3, Hans Nilsson3, Robin Ramstad4 and Markus Fraenz5, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden, (4)Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (5)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany
 
Response of the Martian environment to solar wind dynamic pressure change (21014)
Ronan Modolo, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, Francois Leblanc, LATMOS/IPSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, UVSQ, Paris, France, Jean-Yves Chaufray, LATMOS/IPSL, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne Université, Guyancourt, France, Shannon Curry, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Ludivine Leclercq, Université de Versailles St Quentin, paris, France, Gerard Marcel Chanteur, Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Palaiseau Cedex, France and Philippe Savoini, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Saclay, Ecole polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, 91120 Palaiseau, France, Palaiseau, France
 
Study on formation processes of Martian magnetic flux ropes observed downstream from crustal magnetic fields based on the Grad-Shafranov reconstruction technique (20358)
Dr. Takuya Hara, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Kanako Seki, The University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Japan and Dave A Brain, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
 
Asymmetric Penetration of Shocked Solar Wind Down to 400-km Altitudes at Mars (20813)
Kazunari Matsunaga, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Kanako Seki, The University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Dr. Takuya Hara, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States and Dave A Brain, University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
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