P53D:
Current Processes in the Atmosphere of Mars II

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Armin Kleinboehl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Armin Kleinboehl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States and Paul Ottinger Hayne, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
The Martian O2 and H2O cycles observed with ChemCam Passive Sky Spectroscopy
Timothy H McConnochie1, Michael D Smith2, Steven C Bender3, Michael J Wolff4, Jeffrey Roy Johnson5, Mark T Lemmon6, Roger C Wiens7, Sylvestre Maurice8, Olivier Gasnault9, Diana Blaney10, Lauren P DeFlores10, Ari-Matti Harri11, Osku Kemppinen11, Maria Genzer11, John E Moores12, Michael H Wong13, Melissa G Trainer2, Javier Martín-Torres14, Maria-Paz Zorzano14, Heather Franz15, Bruce Lee Barraclough3, Sushil K Atreya16 and Paul R Mahaffy2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Planetary Science Institute Los Alamos, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (6)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (7)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (8)IRAP, Toulouse, France, (9)Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (10)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (11)Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, (12)York Universite, Earth and Space Science and Engineering, Toronto, Canada, (13)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (14)Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain, (15)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (16)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
2:00 PM
 
Mars Atmospheric Composition, Isotope Ratios and Seasonal Variations: Overview and Updates of the SAM Measurements at Gale Crater
Christopher R Webster1, Paul R Mahaffy2, Sushil K Atreya3, Pamela Gales Conrad2, Heather Franz2, Melissa G Trainer2, Michael H Wong4, Michael A Mischna1, Gregory Flesch1, Kenneth A Farley5, Tobias C Owen6, Paul B Niles7, John H Jones7, Lance E Christensen1, Javier Martín-Torres8 and Maria-Paz Zorzano9, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (7)NASA Johnson SFC, Houston, TX, United States, (8)Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain, (9)INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain
2:15 PM
 
Chemical pathway analysis of the Martian atmosphere: The formation and destruction of ozone
Christohper Boxe1, Joachim Stock2, Ralph Lehmann3, Lee Grenfell4, A. Patzer5, Heike Rauer4,5 and Yuk L Yung6, (1)CUNY Graduate Center, Chemistry Division, Earth and Environmental Science Division,, Manhattan, NY, United States, (2)Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía-CSIC Glorieta de la Astronomía, Granada, Spain, (3)Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum fur Polar- und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany, (4)Institut fur Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt, Berlin, Germany, (5)Zentrum fur Astronomie und Astrophysik, Berlin, Germany, (6)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
2:30 PM
 
What Are the Origins of Detached Layers of Dust on Mars ? Investigation with Global Climate Model
Tanguy Bertrand, Aymeric Spiga and Francois Forget, LMD Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France
2:50 PM
 
Dust Layering in the Atmosphere of Mars Observed by the Phoenix LIDAR and Explained Using a General Circulation Model
James A Whiteway1, Frank Daerden2, Leonce Komguem1 and Lori Neary3, (1)York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, (2)BIRA-IASB, Brussels, Belgium, (3)BIRA/IASB, Brussels, Belgium
3:05 PM
 
The Radiative Impact of Water Ice Clouds from a Reanalysis of Mars Climate Sounder Data
Liam Steele, Stephen Lewis and Manish Patel, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
3:25 PM
 
The Global and Local Characters of Mars Perihelion Cloud Trails
Robert Todd Clancy1, Michael J Wolff1, Michael D Smith2, Bruce A Cantor3 and Aymeric Spiga4, (1)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (4)LMD Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France
 
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