P51B:
Current Processes in the Atmosphere of Mars I Posters

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, 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:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Radiometry: Phase Functions and the Optical Depth of Nocturnal Water Ice Clouds
Gregory A Neumann, NASA, Baltimore, MD, United States, Michael Kenneth Barker, Sigma Space Corporation, Hyattsville, MD, United States and Xiaoli Sun, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Restoration and Recalibration of the Viking MAWD Datasets
Raquel G. Nuno1, David A Paige2 and Mark Sullivan2, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
A Revised Calibration Function and Results for the Phoenix Mission TECP Relative Humidity Sensor
Aaron Zent, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
 
Seasonal and Spatial Distribution of Carbon Monoxide on Mars as Observed by CRISM
Michael D Smith, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Limb Retrievals of the martian atmosphere: Mapping with optical observations from MGS/TES, MRO/MCS, and MRO/MARCI
Michael J Wolff1, Robert Todd Clancy1, Michael D Smith2 and Joshua L Bandfield3, (1)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Estimates of Horizontal Ionospheric Currents on the Dayside of Mars
Matthew O. Fillingim1, Robert J Lillis1 and Dave A Brain2, (1)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Observing Magnetic and Current Profiles of the Night side and Terminator of Mars through the Mars Global Surveyor Data
Nicole Ponce, Matthew O. Fillingim and Alexander Lee Fogle, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Analyzing Magnetic Field and Electrical Current Profiles of the Day Side and Terminator of Mars Using Data from Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Alexander Lee Fogle, Nicole Ponce and Matthew O. Fillingim, University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
A Search for Lightning in the Martian Ionosphere
Teresa M Esman, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Jared R Espley, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and John E P Connerney, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Trajectories of air parcel motions in Mars' atmosphere computed using HYSPLIT.
Alison F C Bridger and David Bruggeman, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
 
Sensitivity of Simulated Martian Atmospheric Temperature to Prescribed Dust Opacity Distribution. Comparisons of Model Results With Reconstructed Data From Past Mars Missions
Murali Natarajan1, Alicia M Dwyer Cianciolo1, Thomas Duncan Fairlie1, Mark Ian Richardson2 and Timothy H McConnochie3, (1)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
A Mars Dust Model with Interactive Dynamics, Radiation, and Microphysics
Victoria Hartwick, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and O. Brian Toon, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Using Engineering Cameras on Mars Landers and Rovers to Retrieve Atmospheric Dust Loading
Christopher A Wolfe and Mark T Lemmon, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
An Application Using Triaxial Ellipsoids to Model Martian Dust at the Phoenix Landing Site
Emily L Mason and Mark T Lemmon, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Climatology of Dust Lifting As Observed By the Mars Orbiter Camera
Scott Guzewich, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Laura Kulowski, Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, Huiqun Wang, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States and Anthony D Toigo, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Comparison of the Martian Polar Vortices in Data Assimilation Reanalyses and General Circulation Models
Darryn W Waugh, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, United States, Scott Guzewich, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Yuan Lian, Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States, Steven Greybush, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, Daniel Mitchell, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Timothy H McConnochie, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Luca Montabone, Space Science Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, R John Wilson, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Anthony D Toigo, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States
 
Modeling variability in Mars' lower ionosphere
David J Pawlowski1, Stephen W Bougher2 and Michelle Newkirk1, (1)Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Monte Carlo Model Predictions of Energetic Ion Precipitation and Energy Deposition in the Martian Atmosphere
Rebecca Jolitz1, Robert J Lillis2, Shannon Curry3, Christopher Dennis Parkinson4 and Davin E Larson3, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Intense Vibrations of the Martian Ionosphere Observed by MARSIS Active Sounding during a Sun--Earth--Mars Conjunction
David DeWitt Morgan1, Catherine Dieval1, Donald A Gurnett2 and Mark Lester3, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
 
The upper ionosphere of Mars: A comparison of Mariner 9 radio occultation and MARSIS measurements
Marissa F. Vogt, Boston University, Center for Space Physics, Boston, MA, United States and Paul Withers, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
 
Does the Precipitation of Solar Wind Plasma Cause the Ionospheric Upwellings Detected by MARSIS on the Dayside of Mars?
Catherine Dieval1, David DeWitt Morgan1, David J Andrews2, Firdevs Duru1 and Donald A Gurnett3, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
 
Oxygen Pickup Ions Measured by MAVEN: A Link to the Extended Exosphere of Mars
Ali Rahmati1, Thomas Cravens1, Davin E Larson2, Jane Lee Fox3, Stephen W Bougher4, Robert J Lillis2, Stephen A Ledvina2 and Patrick Dunn2, (1)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Wright State University, Dayton, OH, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
 
Survey of Mars Energetic O+ Ions Beyond the Induced Magnetospheric Boundary
Michael Warren Liemohn1, Blake Christian Johnson1, Markus Fraenz2 and Stanislav V Barabash3, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (3)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden
 
Atmospheric Waves in MGS TES Limb-Scan Temperatures
Donald J Banfield1, Barney J Conrath1, Monte s Kaelberer2 and Michael D Smith3, (1)Cornell University, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Ithaca, NY, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
The Effects of Thermal Tides and Dust on Traveling Waves in the Martian Atmosphere
Huiqun Wang, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, Anthony D Toigo, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States and Mark Ian Richardson, Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Northern Late Winter Planetary Waves: MRO/MARCI Observations and Mars Climate Model Simulations
Jeffery L Hollingsworth1, Melinda A Kahre1, Robert Michael Haberle1 and Michael J Wolff2, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Boundary Layer Regimes Conducive to Formation of Dust Devils on Mars
Bryce Williams and Udaysankar S Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Interpretation of the Meteorological Gale Environment through Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) Observations and Mesoscale Modeling (MRAMS)
Jorge Pla-García1,2, Scot CR Rafkin3, Javier Gómez-Elvira1,2, Javier Martín-Torres4 and Maria-Paz Zorzano1,2, (1)INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, (2)Centro de Astrobiología, Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain
 
Pressure oscillations on the surface of Gale Crater and coincident observations of global circulation patterns.
Manuel De La Torre Juarez1, David M Kass2, Robert Michael Haberle3, Javier Gómez-Elvira4, Ari-Matti Harri5, Armin Kleinboehl1, Henrik Kahanpää5, Melinda A Kahre6, Mark T Lemmon7, Javier Martín-Torres8, Claire E Newman9, Scot CR Rafkin10, Jose Antonio Rodriguez-Manfredi4, Veronica Peinado4, Ashwin R Vasavada2 and Maria-Paz Zorzano4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, (5)Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, (6)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (7)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (8)Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain, (9)Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
FISM-P: A Model of the Vacuum Ultraviolet Irradiance Spectrum for Atmospheric Studies at Mars and Beyond
Edward Thiemann, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Francis Gerard Eparvier, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Phillip C Chamberlin, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
The Martian escape rate as a function of upstream solar conditions
Robin Ramstad, Stas Barabash, Yoshifumi Futaana, Hans Nilsson and Mats Holmstrom, IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden
 
Dynamics and Escape of H2 and OH Molecules Induced by Hot Oxygen Atoms in the Upper Atmosphere of Mars
Marko Gacesa, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States and Vasili Alex Kharchenko, UConn & Harvard-Smiths. CfA, Upton, MA, United States
 
Energy Deposition and Escape Fluxes Induced by Energetic Solar Wind Ions and ENAs Precipitating into Mars Atmosphere: Accurate Consideration of Energy Transfer Collisions
Vasili Alex Kharchenko, UConn & Harvard-Smiths. CfA, Upton, MA, United States, Nicholas Lewkow, University of Connecticut, Somerville, MA, United States and Marko Gacesa, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States
 
An Investigation of the Local Energetics of the Martian Atmosphere
Joseph Michael Battalio and Istvan Szunyogh, Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Science, College Station, TX, United States
 
Long-Term Periodicity of the Mars Exospheric Density from MRO and Mars Odyssey Radio Tracking Data
Antonio Genova1, Sander J Goossens2, Frank G Lemoine3, Erwan Mazarico4, David E Smith5 and Maria T Zuber5, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)UMBC CRESST/ NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Massachusetts Inst Tech, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Experiments with Orbit-Spin Coupling Accelerations in a Mars General Circulation Model
Michael A Mischna, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, James H Shirley, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Claire E Newman, Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Secular Climate Change on Mars: An Update Using One Mars Year of MSL Pressure Data
Robert Michael Haberle1, Javier Gómez-Elvira2, Manuel De La Torre Juarez3, Ari-Matti Harri4, Jeffery L Hollingsworth1, Henrik Kahanpää4, Melinda A Kahre5, Mark T Lemmon6, Javier Martín-Torres7, Michael A Mischna3, John E Moores8, Claire E Newman9, Scot CR Rafkin10, Nilton O Renno11, Mark Ian Richardson9, Jose Antonio Rodriguez-Manfredi2, Peter C Thomas12, Ashwin R Vasavada13, Michael H Wong14 and Maria-Paz Zorzano2, (1)NASA Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)INTA-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Finnish Meteorological Inst, Helsinki, Finland, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (6)Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States, (7)Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Granada, Spain, (8)York Universite, Earth and Space Science and Engineering, Toronto, Canada, (9)Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (12)Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, (13)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (14)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Albedo of Surface CO2 Deposits in Mars' Residual South Polar Cap
Philip B James, Space Science Institute Boulder, Brookfield, WI, United States, Michael J Wolff, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Boncho Bonev, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
 
Laboratory Experiments on Heterogeneous CO2 Ice Nucleation and Growth Rates on Meteor Smoke Particle Analogues in the Martian Mesosphere
Mario Nachbar1, Denis Duft2, Thomas Mangan3, Juan Carlos Gomez Martin3, John M C Plane4 and Thomas Leisner2, (1)University of Heidelberg, Institute of Environmental Physics, Heidelberg, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT, Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
 
The Influence of the Martian Bow Shock on Heavy Planetary Ions
Blake Christian Johnson1, Michael Warren Liemohn1, Gabriella Stenberg2, Hans Nilsson2, Robin Ramstad2 and Markus Fraenz3, (1)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Kiruna, Kiruna, Sweden, (3)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
 
Response of the Martian environment to solar wind dynamic pressure change
Ronan Modolo1, Francois Leblanc1, Jean-Yves Chaufray2, Shannon Curry3, Ludivine Leclercq4, Gerard Marcel Chanteur5 and Philippe Savoini6, (1)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (2)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (3)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Université de Versailles St Quentin, paris, CDX, France, (5)Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France, (6)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Saint-Maur Des Fossés Cedex, France
 
Study on formation processes of Martian magnetic flux ropes observed downstream from crustal magnetic fields based on the Grad-Shafranov reconstruction technique
Takuya Hara, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Kanako Seki, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, Hiroshi Hasegawa, JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara, Japan and Dave A Brain, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Asymmetric Penetration of Shocked Solar Wind Down to 400-km Altitudes at Mars
Kazunari Matsunaga1, Kanako Seki1, Takuya Hara2 and Dave A Brain3, (1)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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