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

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Richard L Collins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
Primary Conveners:  Diego Janches, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Richard L Collins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States and Michael J Taylor, Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Richard L Collins, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
On the Size of the Cosmic Dust Input to the Earth’s Atmosphere
John M C Plane1, Wuhu Feng1, Juan Diego Carrillo-Sánchez1, Diego Janches2, David Nesvorny3, Chester S. Gardner4 and Daniel Robert Marsh5, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - UIUC, Urbana, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
8:20 AM
 
Meteor Trails in the Lower Thermosphere: What Do Large Radars Really Detect?
Meers M Oppenheim and Yakov S Dimant, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
8:35 AM
 
Laboratory Micrometeroid/Dust Ablation Studies
Evan Thomas1, Mihaly Horanyi1, Diego Janches2, Tobin L Munsat3, John M C Plane4, Jonas Simolka3 and Zoltan Sternovsky5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Leeds, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (5)Colorado Univ, Boulder, CO, United States
8:50 AM
 
The Relative Roles of Dynamics and Energetic Particle Precipitation in Driving Variability of High-Latitude Mesospheric NOx
Daniel Robert Marsh1, Mark A. Clilverd2, Douglas Edward Kinnison1, Craig J Rodger3 and Pekka T Verronen4, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (3)University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, (4)Finnish Meteorological Inst., Helsinki, Finland
9:10 AM
 
Effects of Two Large Solar Energetic Particle Events on Middle Atmosphere Nighttime Odd Hydrogen and Ozone Content
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, VA, United States, (4)SSAI, Hampton, VA, United States, (5)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
9:25 AM
 
Updated Chemical, Radiative, and Transport Properties of Thermospheric Odd Nitrogen
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, VA, United States, Scott Martin Bailey, VA Tech, Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Wenbin Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Stanley C Solomon, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Cora E Randall, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
9:40 AM
 
Non-LTE Diagnostics of the IR Observations of Planetary Atmospheres
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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