Conveners
New missions and tools: (2 invited talks + 1 contribution talk)
- Craig Rodger (University of Otago, New Zealand)
- Daniel Marsh (University of Leeds)
New missions and tools: (1 invited talk + 1 contributed talk)
- Craig Rodger (University of Otago)
- Daniel Marsh (University of Leeds)
Keystone is a proposed upper atmospheric limb sounding mission with the aim of providing a comprehensive measurement of the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) composition, temperature and winds, and its variability (from a diurnal to a seasonal scale). It’s currently in Phase-0 study as ESA’s 12th Earth Explorer.
The MLT is the upper atmosphere region which goes from 70km to 120km,...
The Changing-Atmosphere Infra-Red Tomography Explorer (CAIRT) is currently in Phase A as one of two candidates for ESA’s Earth Explorer 11. As a Fourier transform infrared limb imager, CAIRT will observe simultaneously from the middle troposphere to the lower thermosphere at high spectral resolution and with unprecedented horizontal and vertical resolution. With this, CAIRT will provide...
The evolution of changes in the zonal mean vertical distribution of ozone from the set of models participating in the CCMI-2022 project, using data from the REF-D1 and REF-D2 series of simulations is examined. This work presents the effects of natural variability forcings, focusing on solar cycle effects, as well as ENSO and volcanic eruptions on ozone and temperature profiles using the...
The RADiation Impacts on Climate and Atmospheric Loss Satellite (RADICALS) is a low-Earth orbiting Canadian small satellite mission investigating the transport of space radiation into the atmosphere, and its impact on Earth’s climate. Scheduled for launch in late 2026, the mission will launch into a polar orbit with an integrated payload comprising two back-to-back look direction High Energy...
A flexible new scheme has been implemented in the Socrates radiative transfer code in order to parametrise a unified treatment of radiative heating, photolysis and photoionisation covering the whole spectrum of solar emission.
Socrates is currently used only for radiative heating within the UK Earth System Model. For CMIP7 this will represent solar spectral variability in 12 bands including...
