SA43B:
Ice Layers in the Mesopause Region: Their Physics, Relationship to the Environment in Which They Form, and Response to External Forcings I Posters

Session ID#: 5388

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Scott Martin Bailey, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States and James M Russell III, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, 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:  James M Russell III, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, 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:

 
Nucleation of Mesospheric Cloud Particles: Model and Laboratory Results (3568)
Henrike Wilms1, Annekatrin Kirsch2, Markus Rapp3, Denis Duft4, Mario Nachbar4 and Thomas Leisner5, (1)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Wessling, Germany, (2)Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Kühlungsborn, Germany, (3)German Aerospace Center (DLR) Oberpfaffenhofen, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, (5)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany
 
SBUV Version 4 PMC Data and Trend Analysis: Did the Trend Change in the mid-1990’s? (18581)
Matthew T DeLand, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States and Gary E Thomas, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Cips (Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment) Observations of a Newly Discovered Population of Very Large Ice Particles in Polar Mesospheric Clouds (6870)
David W Rusch1, Gary E Thomas2, Amal Chandran3, Aimee W Merkel4, Jerry D Lumpe5, Cora E Randall2, John J Olivero6, Scott Martin Bailey7 and James M Russell III8, (1)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Anchorage, AK, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Computational Physics, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (7)VA Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (8)Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Interannual Variability in PMCs from AIM/CIPS (18008)
Cora E Randall, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, V Lynn Harvey, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, Laura Angelina Holt, NorthWest Research Associates, Boulder, United States, Jerry D Lumpe, Computational Physics, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, Scott Martin Bailey, VA Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States and James M Russell III, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
 
Mesospheric Zonal Mean Winds Derived from Consecutive Orbits of AIM Cips Images (5402)
Ping-ping Rong, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States, Jia Yue, GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, United States, James M Russell III, Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, Jerry D Lumpe, Computational Physics, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, Jie Gong, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Dong Liang Wu, PhD, Climate and Radiation Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Cora E Randall, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
An Albedo-Ice Regression Method for Determining Ice Water Content of Polar Mesospheric Clouds from UV Observations (18698)
Gary E Thomas, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Charles Bardeen, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, United States and Susanne Benze, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
 
On the formation of sharp gradients in electron density resulting from an ice-plasma feedback instabilities in the polar summer mesosphere (20577)
Jonathan Yee, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Hasan Bahcivan, SRI International Menlo Park, Center for Geospace Studies, Menlo Park, CA, United States
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