P21B:
Processes in the Present-Day Atmosphere of Mars I Posters

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Session ID#: 12466

Session Description:
Recent observations from Mars orbiters, landers, and rovers provide a wealth of information on the Martian atmosphere. Surface weather is monitored by the Curiosity rover, while several orbiters perform atmospheric observations, covering regions from the near-surface to the upper atmosphere. While observations have led to considerable progress in understanding the structure of the Martian atmosphere, the challenges of today are the identification and quantification of underlying dynamical, chemical, and radiative processes that govern the Martian atmosphere. This session solicits observational and theoretical contributions that provide deeper insight into these processes in the present-day atmosphere of Mars, including upper atmospheric processes. Studies on the connection between the upper and the lower atmosphere are particularly encouraged.
Primary Convener:  Armin Kleinboehl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, Paul Ottinger Hayne, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Chairs:  Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States and Armin Kleinboehl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • SA - SPA-Aeronomy
Index Terms:

3346 Planetary meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
5405 Atmospheres [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
5445 Meteorology [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]
6225 Mars [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLAR SYSTEM OBJECTS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modeling of meteor impact airbursts on Earth and Mars: comparative analysis (135154)
Foivos Georgios Karakostas1, Virgile Rakoto1, Philippe Henri Lognonné2, Carene S Larmat3 and Marcel Remillieux3, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)Université Paris Cité, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Mars atmospheric losses induced by the solar wind: current knowledge and perspective (175302)
Vladimir Ermakov1, Lev M Zelenyi1, Oleg L Vaisberg1 and Edward Dubinin2, (1)Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), Moscow, Russia, (2)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany
Extinction measurements of dust aerosol from Mars Science Laboratory solar images (182909)
Mark T Lemmon, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Joseph Michael Battalio, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, Manuel de la Torre Juarez, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Javier Martín-Torres, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, Emily L Mason, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Claire E Newman, Aeolis Research, Chandler, United States and María-Paz Zorzano, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
Modeling of the seismic signals generated by dust devils on Mars (177721)
Balthasar Kenda1, Philippe Henri Lognonné2, Aymeric Spiga3, Taichi Kawamura2, Sharon Kedar4, William Bruce Banerdt4 and Ralph D Lorenz5, (1)Université de Paris, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, (2)Université Paris Cité, Institut de physique du globe de Paris, CNRS, Paris, France, (3)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique UPMC, Paris, France, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Determining Size Distribution at the Phoenix Landing Site (188475)
Emily L Mason and Mark T Lemmon, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
How Do Martian Dust Devils Vary Throughout the Sol? (118350)
Rhian Chapman1, Stephen Lewis2, Matthew R Balme3 and Liam Steele1, (1)Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom, (2)Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (3)The Open University, School of Physical Sciences, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Radiative Transfer Characterization of Inhomogeneous Boundary Layers (187970)
Dominic M Cartina and Mark T Lemmon, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Aerosol Optical Depth as Observed by the Mars Science Laboratory REMS UV Photodiodes (151307)
Michael D Smith1, María-Paz Zorzano2, Mark T Lemmon3, Javier Martín-Torres4 and Teresa Mendaza de Cal4, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain, (3)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden
Methane clathrate stability zone variations and gas transport in the Martian subsurface (173529)
Ozgur Karatekin1, Elodie Gloesener1, Veronique M A Dehant1 and Orkun Temel2, (1)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, (2)von Karman Institute, Rhode-St-Genese, Belgium
Making Martian Methane via Surface H Release (164222)
Amber Vanessa Young, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Shawn D Domagal-Goldman, NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States
Constraining the Sublimation Rate of the Louth Crater Ice Mound with Observations of Atmospheric Water Vapor in the Thermal Infrared (170822)
George D McDonald, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, Lujendra Ojha, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, United States, Timothy H McConnochie, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Astronomy, College Park, MD, United States, Michael D Smith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and James J Wray, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Local Time Variation of Water Vapor on Mars using TES Aerobraking Spectra (137671)
Meera Rashid AlShamsi1, Asmaa Ahmed AlJanaahi1, Michael D Smith2, Eman Saeed Altunaiji3 and Christopher S Edwards4, (1)Mohamed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, (4)Northern Arizona University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Comparison of the hydrological cycle in the general circulation model with 10 years SPICAM dataset (117833)
Dmitry Shaposhnikov1, Alexander Rodin1 and Alexander S Medvedev2, (1)Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia, (2)Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
Local Time Variation of Water Ice Clouds on Mars as Observed by TES During Aerobraking. (138498)
Asmaa Ahmed AlJanaahi1, Meera Rashid AlShamsi1, Michael D Smith2, Eman Saeed Altunaiji3 and Christopher S Edwards4, (1)Mohamed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, (4)Northern Arizona University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
A Comparison of Martian Transient Wave Energetics in High and Low Optical Depth Environments (151004)
Joseph Michael Battalio, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, United States, Istvan Szunyogh, Texas A&M University, Atmospheric Science, College Station, TX, United States and Mark T Lemmon, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Study on Interaction Between Diurnal Tide and Atmospheric Aerosols Observed by Mars Climate Sounder (148018)
Zhaopeng Wu and Tao Li, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
On the link between martian total ozone and potential vorticity (157956)
James Holmes1, Stephen Lewis1 and Manish Kumar Patel2, (1)Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (2)School of Physical Science, STEM - The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Annual Cycle of GW-induced CO2 Cloud Formation in Mars’ Middle Atmosphere (184616)
Alexander S Medvedev, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany and Prof. Erdal Yiğit, PhD., NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Greenbelt, United States
Stability of Mars' annular polar vortex (183804)
William Seviour, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Darryn Waugh, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States and Richard Scott, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom
Gravity Waves in the Atmosphere of Mars as seen by the Radio Science Experiment MaRS on Mars Express (175269)
Silvia Tellmann, RIU, Cologne, Planetary Research, Cologne, Germany, Martin Paetzold, Universitaet Koeln, Koeln, Germany, Bernd Häusler, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Institut für Raumfahrttechnik und Weltraumnutzung, Munich, Germany, Michael Keith Bird, Univ Bonn, Bonn, Germany, G Leonard Tyler, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and David P Hinson, SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States
Electrical Activity in Martian Dust Storms (185870)
Walid Majid, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Shahab Arabshahi, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, United States and Jonathon Kocz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
On the production of Gamma rays and Relativistic Runaway Electron Avalanches from Martian dust storms (187882)
Shahab Arabshahi, JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, Walid Majid, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Joseph R Dwyer, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics, Durham, NH, United States and Hamid K Rassoul, Florida Inst Tech, Department of Aerospace Physics and Space Science, Melbourne, United States
Dust Storm Forecasts for Mars Year 33: An Update (158652)
James H Shirley, TORQUEFX, Simi Valley, United States and Michael Mischna, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Maps of Structured Aerosol Activity During the MY 25 Planet-encircling Dust Storm on Mars (164280)
John Noble1, R John Wilson2, Bruce A Cantor3, Melinda A Kahre4, Jeffery L Hollingsworth1, Alison F C Bridger5, Robert Michael Haberle4 and Jeffrey Barnes6, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)NASA Ames Center, Mountain View, United States, (3)Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (5)San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States, (6)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
A Peek into a Cul-De-Sac and a Mews of Martian Dust Storm Activity: Western Hellas and Syria-Claritas Fossae During Mars Year 29 (130399)
Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
Interannual Variability in Global Dust Storm Initiation on Mars from a GCM with Orbit-Spin Coupling and Active Dust Lifting (149784)
Michael Mischna, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, James H Shirley, TORQUEFX, Simi Valley, United States and Claire E Newman, Aeolis Research, Chandler, United States
CO2 Ice Formation and CO2 Gas Depletion in the Polar Winter Atmosphere of Mars from Mars Climate Sounder Measurements (154722)
Armin Kleinboehl1, Priyaben K. Patel2, John T. Schofield1, David M Kass1, Paul Ottinger Hayne1 and Daniel J McCleese1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Limb Retrievals of TES solarband/IR data (and MCS solarband data) (166283)
Michael J Wolff, Space Science Institute, Boulder, United States and Alexey Pankine, Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
The ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter NOMAD Spectrometer Suite for Nadir, Limb and Solar Occultation Measurements of Mars' Atmosphere (181532)
Ian Richard Thomas1, Ann Carine Vandaele2, Eddy Neefs1, Bojan Ristic1, Frank Daerden1, Jose J Lopez-Moreno3, Giancarlo Bellucci4 and Manish Kumar Patel5, (1)Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (2)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (3)Inst Astrofisica Andalucia, Granada, Spain, (4)Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology, Italy, Rome, Italy, (5)School of Physical Science, STEM - The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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