P54A:
Current Processes in the Atmosphere of Mars III

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Armin Kleinboehl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 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:  Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
A Possible Influence of Solar System Dynamics on the Circulation of the Mars Atmosphere
James H Shirley, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
4:15 PM
 
Mars Climate Sounder Retrievals with Two-dimensional Radiative Transfer: Implications for the Temperature Structure in the Winter Polar Region
Armin Kleinboehl, Andrew James Friedson and John T. Schofield, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
4:30 PM
 
Variability of Electron Densities in the Low-Altitude Martian Nightside Ionosphere Derived from the Intensity of Marsis AIS Surface Reflections
Frantisek Nemec, Charles University, Prague, 180, Czech Republic, David DeWitt Morgan, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States and Donald A Gurnett, Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
4:45 PM
 
A Case Study of the Density Structure over a Vertical Magnetic Field Region in the Martian Ionosphere
Firdevs Duru1, Donald A Gurnett2, David DeWitt Morgan1, Catherine Dieval1, David Pisa1 and Rickard N A Lundin3, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Umeå, Umeå, Sweden
5:00 PM
 
The MAVEN Extreme Ultraviolet Monitor: Providing Solar EUV Irradiances for Mars Atmospheric Studies
Francis Gerard Eparvier, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Phillip C Chamberlin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Edward Thiemann, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States and Thomas N Woods, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
5:15 PM
 
Hybrid Particle Code Simulations of Mars: The Role of Assorted Processes in Ionospheric Escape.
Stephen H Brecht, Bay Area Research Corp, Orinda, CA, United States and Stephen A Ledvina, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
5:30 PM
 
Time Variation of Mars Atmospheric Loss in Response to Continuous Rotation of the Crustal Magnetic Field
Xiaohua Fang, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Yingjuan Ma, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
5:45 PM
 
The Response of Heavy Planetary Ions at Mars to Reversals of the IMF
Shannon Curry1, Chuanfei Dong2, Janet G Luhmann3, Yingjuan Ma4, Stephen W Bougher2, Ronan Modolo5 and Francois Leblanc5, (1)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)AOSS, Ann Arbor,, MI, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France
 
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