Chairs: Diego Janches, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Richard L Collins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Fairbanks, AK, 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: Diego Janches, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Observations of Thermospheric Na Layers up to 170 Km at Lijiang (26.7 N, 100.0 E) (8688)
Qi Gao1, Xinzhao Chu2, Xianghui Xue3 and Xiankang Dou1, (1)USTC University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES & Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Science and Technology of China, CAS Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
Meteor Smoke Particles in the D-Region Ionosphere - Implications from the Sic Model on Ions and Other Neutrals (10042)
Carsten Baumann, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, Markus Rapp, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Pekka T Verronen, Finnish Meteorological Inst., Helsinki, Finland, Carl-Fredrik T Enell, EISCAT Scientific Association, Kiruna, Sweden and Antti Kero, Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory, Sodankyla, Finland
Development of a Sodium Lidar for Space-Borne Missions (11653)
Diego Janches1, Michael A. Krainak1, Anthony W Yu2, Sarah Jones3, Branimir Blagojevic3, Jeffrey R. Chen3 and Xinzhao Chu4, (1)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES & Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States
Influence of Sporadic E layers on Mesospheric Na and Fe Layers over Arecibo (17763)
Shikha Raizada1, Craig A Tepley1, Qihou Zhou2, Sumanta Sarkhel3, John D Mathews3, Nestor Aponte1 and Robert Kerr1, (1)Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, PR, United States, (2)Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State Univ, University Park, PA, United States
Sodium lidar observed gravity wave breaking event and its associated significant sodium sporadic layer (20001)
Chao Ban1, Tao Li1, Xin Fang1, Xiankang Dou1, Jiangang Xiong2, James M Russell III3 and Qian Wu4, (1)University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, (2)Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, (4)NCAR, Boulder, United States
Observations of mesospheric nitric oxide and ozone variability above Halley station, Antarctica (21273)
David Newnham1, Mark A. Clilverd1, Richard Bertram Horne1, Craig J Rodger2, Annika Seppala1,3, Pekka T Verronen3, Monika Ewa Szelag3, Daniel Robert Marsh4, Tamas Kovacs5 and John M C Plane6, (1)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (2)University of Otago, Department of Physics, Dunedin, New Zealand, (3)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Leeds, School of Chemistry, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)University of Leeds, School of Chemistry, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
OASIS, Observatory for Atmosphere Space Interaction Studies (21814)
Gary R Swenson, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, Jeffrey P Thayer, University of Colorado at Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, United States and Chester S Gardner, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - UIUC, Urbana, United States
Direct measurements of vertical heat flux and Na flux in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere by lidar at Boulder (40°N, 105°W), Colorado (23301)
Wentao Huang1, Xinzhao Chu2, Chester S Gardner3, Ian F Barry4, John A Smith4, Weichun Fong5, Zhibin Yu6 and Cao Chen4, (1)Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES & Aerospace, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - UIUC, Urbana, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)CIRES, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Mountain Wave Climatology at Cerro Pachón, Chile, from All Sky Imager Analysis (30174)
Mr. Jaime Aguilar Guerrero, PhD1, Alan Z Liu1, Fabio Vargas2, Gary R Swenson3 and Anthony Dominic Mangognia4, (1)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Urbana, United States, (4)University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
Contributions of the Higher Vibrational Levels of Nitric Oxide to the Radiative Cooling of the Thermosphere (30567)
Karthik Venkataramani, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, Justin D Yonker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States and Scott Martin Bailey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
The Energy Budget of the Mesosphere Derived from SABER (4051)
Linda A Hunt, SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, Martin G Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, United States, Christopher J Mertens, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States, Benjamin T Marshall, GATS, Inc., Newport News, VA, United States and James M Russell III, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
