SA52A
Composition and Temperature of the Thermosphere II

Friday, 18 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
2016 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Alan Geoffrey Burns, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Jeffrey P Thayer, University of Colorado at Boulder - CU, Boulder, CO, United States, Martin G Mlynczak, NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States and Wenbin Wang, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Alan Geoffrey Burns1, Martin G Mlynczak2, Jeffrey P Thayer3 and Wenbin Wang1, (1)High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States(2)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States(3)University of Colorado at Boulder - CU, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Alan Geoffrey Burns, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
10:20
Temperature Results from the High-Power, Large-Aperture, Rayleigh-Scatter Lidar at Utah State University (86547)
Vincent B Wickwar, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States
10:35
Increasing carbon dioxide concentration in the upper atmosphere observed by SABER (Invited) (59051)
Jia Yue1, James M Russell III2, Yongxiao Jian2, Ladislav Rezac3, Rolando R Garcia4, Manuel Lopez-Puertas5 and Martin G Mlynczak6, (1)Hampton University, Hampton, VA, United States, (2)Hampton University, Department of Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, (3)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Planetary, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)IAA-CSIC, Granada, Spain, (6)NASA Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States
10:50
The Latitudinal and Longitudinal Variations of the Thermospheric Density Caused by Aurora Heating (Invited) (58905)
Jiyao Xu1, Wenbin Wang2, Anne K Smith3, Guoying Jiang1 and Wei Yuan1, (1)National Space Science Center, Beijing, China, (2)High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
11:05
Solar Cycle Variability in Mean Thermospheric Composition and Temperature Induced by Atmospheric Tides (70434)
McArthur Jones Jr1,2, Jeffrey M Forbes1 and Maura E Hagan3, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States
11:20
Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD): From Simulations to Observations (74145)
Richard Eastes1, William E. McClintock2, David N Anderson3, Alan Geoffrey Burns4, Scott England5, Stanley C Solomon4, Sarah Jones6, Elsayed R Talaat7, Arve Aksnes8, Laila Andersson9, Mihail Codrescu10, Robert Edward Daniell11, James Harvey12, Andrey Krywonos13, Jerry D Lumpe Jr14, Arthur D Richmond15, David W Rusch9, Oswald Siegmund16, Douglas J Strickland17, Thomas N Woods18, Scott Alan Budzien19, Kenneth Dymond20, Francis Gerard Eparvier9, Ruth Segal Lieberman21, Carlos R. Martinis22 and Jens Oberheide23, (1)Florida Space Institute, Orlando, FL, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (8)University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)SWPC/NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Ionospheric Physics, Stoughton, MA, United States, (12)Photon Engineering, Tuscon, AZ, United States, (13)UCF-Florida Space Institute, Orlando, FL, United States, (14)Computational Physics, Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (15)National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (16)Sensor Sciences, LLC, Pleasant Hill, CA, United States, (17)Computational Physics, Springfield, VA, United States, (18)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (19)Naval Research Lab DC, Washington, DC, United States, (20)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (21)GATS-Inc., Boulder, CO, United States, (22)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (23)Clemson University, Clemson, SC, United States
11:35
Latitudinal and Solar Cycle Variability of Thermosphere Composition at the Solstices (80223)
Liying Qian1, Alan Geoffrey Burns2, Wenbin Wang3, Stanley C Solomon2 and Yongliang Zhang4, (1)University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
11:50
Variations in the thermospheirc compositions (Invited) (58821)
Yongliang Zhang, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, Larry J Paxton, Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins, Laurel, MD, United States and TIMED GUVI team, DMSP SSUSI team
12:05
The Dynamics of Helium and its Impact on the Upper Thermosphere (Invited) (61554)
Eric K Sutton, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
 
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