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Publications

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Updated September 28, 2010

Published

Heavens, N. G., J. Benson, D. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, W. Abdou, D. J. McCleese, M. Richardson, J. T. Schofield, J. Shirley, and P. Wolkenberg 2010.  Water ice clouds over the Martian tropics during northern summer, Geophys. Res. Lett. 37, L18202, doi:10.1029/2010GL044610.

Heavens, N. G., M. I. Richardson, W. G. Lawson, C. Lee, D. J. McCleese, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, J. T. Schofield, W. A. Abdou, and J. H. Shirley 2010.  Convective Instability in the Martian Middle Atmosphere, Icarus 208, 574-589. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.03.023

Kleinböhl, A., J. T. Schofield, D. M. Kass, W. A. Abdou, C. R. Backus, B. Sen, J. H. Shirley,W. G. Lawson, M. I. Richardson, F. W. Taylor, N. A. Teanby, and D. J. McCleese 2009. Mars Climate Sounder limb profile retrieval of atmospheric temperature, pressure, dust and water ice opacity. J. Geophys. Res., 114, E10006, doi:10.1029/2009JE003358.

Lee, C., W. G. Lawson, M. I. Richardson, N. G. Heavens, A. Kleinböhl, D. Banfield, D. J. McCleese, R. Zurek, D. Kass, J. T. Schofield, C. B. Leovy, F. W. Taylor, and A. D. Toigo 2009.  Thermal tides in the Martian Middle Atmosphere as Seen by the Mars Climate Sounder, J. Geophys. Res. 114, E03005, doi:10.1029/2008JE003285.

McCleese, D. J., J. T. Schofield, F. W. Taylor, W. A. Abdou, O. Aharonson, D. Banfield, S. B. Calcutt, N. G. Heavens, P. G. J. Irwin, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, W. G. Lawson, C. B. Leovy, S. R. Lewis, D. A. Paige, P. L. Read, M. I. Richardson, N. Teanby, R.W. Zurek 2008. Intense polar temperature inversion in the middle atmosphere on Mars, Nature Geoscience, 1, 745-749, doi: 10.1038/ngeo332.

McCleese, D. J., Schofield, J.T., Taylor, F.W., Calcutt, S.B., Foote M.C., Kass, D.M., Leovy, C.B., Paige, D.A., Read, P.L., and Zurek, R.W. 2007.  Mars Climate Sounder: An Investigation of Thermal and Water Vapor Structure, Dust and Condensate Distributions in the Atmosphere, and Energy Balance of the Polar Regions, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 112, E05S06, doi:10.1029/2006JE002790.

Tamppari, L. K., D. Bass, B. Cantor, I. Daubar, C. Dickinson, D. Fisher, K. Fujii, H. P. Gunnlauggson, T. L. Hudson, D. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, L. Komguem, M. T. Lemmon, M. Mellon, J. Moores, A. Pankine, J. Pathak, M. Searls, F. Seelos, M. D. Smith, S. Smrekar, P. Taylor, C. Holstein-Rathlou, W. Weng, J. Whiteway, and M. Wolff  2009. Phoenix and MRO Coordinated Atmospheric Measurements, J. Geophys. Res. (E), 115, doi:10.1029/2009JE003415.

Taylor, F. W., S.B. Calcutt, P.L. Read, S.R. Lewis, D.J. McCleese, J.T. Schofield and R.W. Zurek 2006.  Atmospheric temperature sounding on Mars, and the climate sounder on the 2005 reconnaissance orbiter, Adv. Sp. Res. 38, 713-717.cleardoi:10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.072.

Publications in Press

Benson, J. L., D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, D. J. McCleese, J. T. Schofield, and F. W. Taylor 2010, Mars’ South Polar Hood as Observed by the Mars Climate Sounder, J. Geophys. Res., (in press).

McCleese, D. G., N.G. Heavens, J.T. Schofield, W.A. Abdou, J.L. Bandfield, S.B. Calcutt, P.G.J. Irwin, D.M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, C.B. Leovy, S.R. Lewis, D.A. Paige, P.L. Read, M.I. Richardson, J.H. Shirley, F.W. Taylor, N. Teanby, and R.W. Zurek 2010, The Structure and Dynamics of the Martian Lower and Middle Atmosphere as Observed by the Mars Climate Sounder: 1. Seasonal variations in zonal mean temperature, dust and water ice aerosols, J. Geophys. Res. (in press).

Taylor, F.W. Planetary Atmospheres. Meteorological Applications, in press.

Taylor, F.W. Comparative Planetology, Climatology and Biology of Venus, Earth and Mars.  Planetary and Space Science, accepted June 2010.

Publications in Review

Benson, J. L., D. M. Kass, and A. Kleinboehl 2010, Mars’ North Polar Hood as Observed by the Mars Climate Sounder, J. Geophys. Res., submitted.

Heavens, N. G., M. Richardson, A. Kleinböhl, D. Kass, D. J. McCleese, W. Abdou, J. Schofield, J. Shirley, and P. Wolkenberg 2010.  The vertical distribution of dust in the martian atmosphere during northern spring and summer:  1.  Observations by the Mars Climate Sounder and analysis of zonal average vertical dust profiles, J. Geophys. Res. (submitted).

Heavens, N. G., M. Richardson, A. Kleinböhl, D. Kass, D. J. McCleese, W. Abdou, J. Benson, J. T. Schofield, J. Shirley, and P. Wolkenberg 2010.  The vertical distribution of dust in the martian atmosphere during northern spring and summer:  2. The high altitude tropical dust maximum, J. Geophys. Res. (submitted).

Heavens, N. G., McCleese, D.J., Richardson M.I., Kass, D.M., Kleinböhl, A., and Schofield, J.T., The Structure and Dynamics of the Martian Lower and Middle Atmosphere as Observed by the Mars Climate Sounder: 2. Implications of the Zonal Average Thermal Structure and Aerosol Distributions for the Mean Meridional Circulation, submitted to J. Geophys. Res.

Publications about Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Lock, R., P. Xaypraseuth, M. D. Johnston, C. A. Halsell, A. Bowes, D. Lyons, T. You, D. Highsmith, and M. Jah, "The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Mission Plan." Full document (PDF) »

"Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Launch Press Kit," Jet Propulsion Laboratory, August 2005. Full document (PDF) »

"Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Arrival Press Kit," Jet Propulsion Laboratory, March 2006. Full document (PDF) »