The mesosphere and metals: Chemistry and changes

JMC Plane, W Feng, ECM Dawkins - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
The subject of this review is the atmospheric chemistry of the metals which ablate from
meteoroids in the Earth, s upper atmosphere. The major meteoric species are Fe, Mg, Si …

Ice structures, patterns, and processes: A view across the icefields

T Bartels-Rausch, V Bergeron, JHE Cartwright… - Reviews of Modern …, 2012 - APS
From the frontiers of research on ice dynamics in its broadest sense, this review surveys the
structures of ice, the patterns or morphologies it may assume, and the physical and chemical …

Cosmic dust in the earth's atmosphere

JMC Plane - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
This review discusses the magnitude of the cosmic dust input into the earth's atmosphere,
and the resulting impacts from around 100 km to the earth's surface. Zodiacal cloud …

Numerical simulations of the three‐dimensional distribution of meteoric dust in the mesosphere and upper stratosphere

CG Bardeen, OB Toon, EJ Jensen… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Micrometeorites that ablate in the lower thermosphere and upper mesosphere are thought to
recondense into nanometer‐sized smoke particles and then coagulate into larger dust …

The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission: Overview and early science results

JM Russell III, SM Bailey, LL Gordley, DW Rusch… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2009 - Elsevier
The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission was launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base in California at 1: 26: 03 PDT on April 25, 2007 becoming the first satellite …

Impacts of cosmic dust on planetary atmospheres and surfaces

JMC Plane, GJ Flynn, A Määttänen, JE Moores… - Space Science …, 2018 - Springer
Recent advances in interplanetary dust modelling provide much improved estimates of the
fluxes of cosmic dust particles into planetary (and lunar) atmospheres throughout the solar …

High-altitude data assimilation system experiments for the northern summer mesosphere season of 2007

SD Eckermann, KW Hoppel, L Coy… - Journal of Atmospheric …, 2009 - Elsevier
A global numerical weather prediction system is extended to the mesosphere and lower
thermosphere (MLT) and used to assimilate high-altitude satellite measurements of …

Global and temporal distribution of meteoric smoke: A two‐dimensional simulation study

L Megner, DE Siskind, M Rapp… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Meteoric material entering Earth's atmosphere ablates in the mesosphere and is then
expected to recondense into tiny so‐called “smoke particles.” These particles are thought to …

The cloud imaging and particle size experiment on the Aeronomy of Ice in the mesosphere mission: Instrument concept, design, calibration, and on-orbit performance

WE McClintock, DW Rusch, GE Thomas… - Journal of atmospheric …, 2009 - Elsevier
The Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment (CIPS) is one of three instruments aboard
the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere spacecraft. CIPS provides panoramic ultraviolet …

Homogeneous nucleation of amorphous solid water particles in the upper mesosphere

BJ Murray, EJ Jensen - Journal of atmospheric and solar-terrestrial physics, 2010 - Elsevier
Condensed water particles are known to exist in the high latitude upper mesosphere during
the summer months. However, the mechanism or mechanisms through which they nucleate …