HR: 1340h
AN: A33A-0146    [Abstracts]
TI: A First View of Temperature Fields form the Microwave Limb Sounder on Aura
AU: * Schwartz, M J
EM: michael.j.schwartz@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 United States
AU: Manney, G L
EM: Gloria.L.Manney@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 United States
AU: Manney, G L
EM: Gloria.L.Manney@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Department of Natural Sciences, New Mexico Highlands University, NMHU, Las Vegas, NM 87701 United States
AU: Santee, M L
EM: Michelle.L.Santee@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 United States
AU: Filipiak, M J
EM: mjf@met.ed.ac.uk
AF: Institue of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ United Kingdom
AU: Jiang, J H
EM: Jonathan.H.Jiang@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 United States
AU: Livesey, N J
EM: Nathaniel.J. Livesey@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 United States
AU: Pumphrey, H C
EM: hcp@met.ed.ac.uk
AF: Institue of Atmospheric and Environmental Science, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ United Kingdom
AU: Wu, D L
EM: Dong.L.Wu@jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109-8099 United States
AB: A second-generation Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) was launched in July of 2004 as a part of the Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura satellite. This instrument provides temperature fields co-located with atmospheric composition measurements from the upper troposphere through the mesosphere. In this poster we give an overview of the MLS temperature measurements from the first months of EOS Aura Observations. Of particular interest is the 3-dimensional evolution of temperatures in the Antarctic polar vortex during the late winter and spring final warming, including the evolution of temperatures in the lower stratosphere associated with polar processing, and planetary wave evolution during vortex breakup.
UR: http://mls.jpl.nasa.gov
DE: 0341 Middle atmosphere--constituent transport and chemistry (3334)
DE: 0368 Troposphere--constituent transport and chemistry
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting