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Polar Mesospheric Cloud Structures Observed From The Cloud Imaging And Particle Size Experiment On The Aeronomy Of Ice In The Mesosphere Spacecraft: Atmospheric Gravity Waves As Drivers For Longitudinal Variability In Polar Mesospheric Cloud Occurrence, A. Chandran, D. W. Rusch, A. W. Merkel, S. E. Palo, G. E. Thomas, Michael J. Taylor, S. M. Bailey, J. M. Russell Iii
Polar Mesospheric Cloud Structures Observed From The Cloud Imaging And Particle Size Experiment On The Aeronomy Of Ice In The Mesosphere Spacecraft: Atmospheric Gravity Waves As Drivers For Longitudinal Variability In Polar Mesospheric Cloud Occurrence, A. Chandran, D. W. Rusch, A. W. Merkel, S. E. Palo, G. E. Thomas, Michael J. Taylor, S. M. Bailey, J. M. Russell Iii
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The cloud imaging and particle size (CIPS) experiment is one of three instruments on board the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) spacecraft that was launched into a 600 km Sun‐synchronous orbit on 25 April 2007. CIPS images have shown distinct wave patterns and structures in polar mesospheric clouds (PMCs), around the summertime mesopause region, which are qualitatively similar to structures seen in noctilucent clouds (NLCs) from ground‐based photographs. The structures in PMC are generally considered to be manifestations of upward propagating atmospheric gravity waves (AGWs). Variability of AGW effects on PMC reported at several lidar sites has led …
Vibrational Spectroscopic Monitoring Of Co2-O Energy Transfer: Cooling Processes In Atmospheres Of Venus & Mars, Jakob Aaron Schaeffer
Vibrational Spectroscopic Monitoring Of Co2-O Energy Transfer: Cooling Processes In Atmospheres Of Venus & Mars, Jakob Aaron Schaeffer
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The vibrational excitation of CO2 by a fast-moving O atom followed by infrared emission from the vibrationally excited CO2 has been shown to be an important cooling mechanism in the upper atmospheresof Venus, Earth and Mars. We are trying to determine more precisely the efficiency (rate coefficient) of the CO2-O vibrational energy transfer. For experimental ease the reverse reaction is used, i.e. collision of a vibrationally excited CO2 with atomic O, where we are able to convert to the atmospherically relevant reaction via a known equilibrium constant. The goal of this experiment was to measure the magnitudes of rate coefficients …