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Bailey, M. Scott, Gary E. Thomas, David W. Rusch, Aimee W. Merkel, Chris Jeppesen, Justin N. Carstens, Cora E. Randall, William E. McClintock, and  James M. Russell, III, Phase Functions of Polar Mesospheric Cloud Ice as Observed by the CIPS Instrument on the AIM Satellite, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.09.039, 2009.
Baker, D.N., J.P. McCollough, R.L. McPherron, S.M. Ryan, J.C. Westfall, J.M. Russell, and S.M. Bailey, AIM Receiver/Communication Lock Analysis: When Bad Space Weather is Good, Space Weather, Vol. 6, Issue 4, pp. 25-30, 2009.
Bardeen, C. G., O.B. Toon, E. Jensen, M. E. Hervig, C. E. Randall, S. Benze, D. R. Marsh, and A. W. Merkel (2010), Numerical simulations of the three-dimensional distribution of polar mesospheric clouds and comparisons with CIPS and SOFIE observations, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2009JD012451. Article Online
Baumgarten et al., The noctilucent cloud (NLC) display during the ECOMA/MASS sounding rocket flights on August 3, 2007: Morphology on global to local scales, Ann Geophys, 27, 953-965, 2009. [PDF]
Baumgarten, G., A. Chandran, J. Fiedler, P. Hoffman, N. Kaifler, J. Lumpe, A. Merkel, C. E. Randall, D. Rusch, and G. Thomas, On the horizontal and temporal structure of noctilucent clouds as observed by satellite and lidar at ALOMAR (69N), Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L01803, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011GL049935 Article Online
Benze, S., C. E. Randall, B. Karlsson, V. L. Harvey, G. E. Thomas, E. P. Shettle and M. T. DeLand (2012), On the onset of polar mesospheric cloud seasons as observed by SBUV, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D07104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JD017350. Article Online
Benze, S., Cora E. Randall, Matthew T. DeLand, Gary E. Thomas, David W. Rusch,  Scott M. Bailey, James M. Russell, III,  William McClintock, Aimee W. Merkel, Chris Jeppesen,  Comparison of Polar Mesospheric Cloud Measurements from the Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment and the Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Instrument in 2007, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.07.014, 2009. [PDF]
Carstens et al., Space based gravity wave imaging of the stratopause from the cloud imaging and particle size instrument, in preparation for GRL (expected submission March 2013)
Chandran, Amal, David Rusch, S. E. Palo, G. E. Thomas, M. Taylor, Gravity wave observation from the Cloud Imaging and Particle Size (CIPS) Experiment on the AIM Spacecraft, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.09.041, 2009.
Chandran, A., D. W. Rusch, A. W. Merkel, S. E. Palo, G. E. Thomas, M. J. Taylor, S. M. Bailey, and J. M. Russell III (2010), Polar Mesospheric Cloud structures observed from the CIPS experiment on the AIM spacecraft: Atmospheric gravity waves as drivers for longitudinal variability in PMC occurrence, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2009JD013185. Article PDF
Chandran, A., D. W. Rusch, G. E. Thomas, S. E. Palo, G. Baumgarten, E. J. Jensen, A. W. Merkel (2012)Atmospheric gravity wave effects on polar mesospheric clouds: A comparison of numerical simulations from CARMA 2D with AIM observations, J. Geophys. Res., 117 (D20), D20104,http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JD017794 Article Online
Dalin, P., S. Kirkwood, M. Hervig, M. Mihalikova, D. Mikhaylova, I. Wolf, and A. Osepian (2012), Wave influence on polar mesosphere summer echoes above Wasa: experimental and model studies, Ann. Geophys., 30, 1143-1157, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/angeo-30-1143-2012 Article Online
Demissie, T.D., K. Hosokawa, N. H. Kleinknecht, P. J. Espy, R. E. Hibbins, Planetary wave oscillations observed in ozone and PMSE data from Antarctica, JASTP Submitted Feb 2013.
Eckerman et al., High-Altitude Data Assimilation System Experiments for the Northern Summer Mesosphere Season of 2007, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.09.036, 2009.
Gomez-Ramirez, D., J. W. C. McNabb, J. M. Russell III, M. E. Hervig, L. E. Deaver, G. Paxton, and P. F. Bernath (2012), Empirical correction of thermal responses in the SOFIE nitric oxide measurements and initial data validation results, Appl. Optics, in review.
Gordley, L.L., Mark Hervig, Chad Fish, James Russell III, James Cook, Scott Hanson, Andrew Shumway, Scott Bailey, Greg Paxton,Lance Deaver, Tom Marshall, John Burton, Brian Magill, Chris Brown, Earl Thompson, and John Kemp, The Solar Occultation For Ice Experiment (SOFIE), J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.07.012, 2009.
Gordley, Larry L. , John Burton, Benjamin T. Marshall, Martin McHugh, Lance Deaver, Joel Nelsen, James M. Russell, and Scott Bailey, High Precision Refraction Measurements by Solar Imaging during Occultation: Results from SOFIE., App.Optics Vol. 48, Iss. 25, pp. 4814–4825, 2009.
Gumbel, J. and B. Karlsson, Intra‐ and inter‐hemispheric coupling effects on the polar summer mesosphere, Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 38, L14804, doi:10.1029/2011GL047968, 2011 Article PDF
Hart, V. P., T.E. Doyle, M.J. Taylor, Y. Zhao, B.L. Carruth, and P.-D. Pautet, Tomographic Reconstruction of Polar Mesospheric Cloud Structures from Image Data Collected During the NASA AIM Satellite Mission, paper in final preparation for submission to JGR (expected submission, January 2013).
Hervig, M. E., L. E. Deaver, C. G. Bardeen, J. M. Russell, S. M. Bailey, and L. L. Gordley, The composition of meteoric smoke and the smoke content of mesospheric ice from SOFIE observations, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., in review, 2011. 
Hervig, Mark E.; Stevens, Michael H.; Gordley, Larry L.; Deaver, Lance E.; Russell, James M., III; Bailey, Scott M., Relationships between polar mesospheric clouds, temperature, and water vapor from Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment (SOFIE) observations,  J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 114, No. D20, D20203, 2009.
Hervig, M. E., D. E. Siskind, M. H. Stevens, and L. E. Deaver (2012), Inter-hemispheric comparison of PMCs and their environment from SOFIE observations, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2012.10.013. Article Online
Hervig, M. E., L. E. Deaver, C. G. Bardeen, J. M. Russell, S. M. Bailey, and L. L. Gordley (2012), The content and composition of meteoric smoke in mesospheric ice particles from SOFIE observations, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2012.04.005. Article Online
Hervig, M. E., and L. L. Gordley, The temperature, shape, and phase of mesospheric ice from SOFIE observations, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D15208, doi:10.1029/2010JD013918, 2010.  Article Online, User name & password: 26113909
Hervig, M. E., M. Rapp, R. Latteck, and L. L. Gordley, Observations of mesospheric ice particles from the ALWIN radar and SOFIE, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2010.08.002, 2010. Article Online 
Hervig, M.E., L.L. Gordley, M. Stevens, J.M. Russell, and S. Bailey, SOFIE PMC measurements during the northern summer of 2007, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2008.08.010, 2009.
Hervig, M.E., L.L. Gordley, M. Stevens, J.M. Russell, and S. Bailey, Interpretation of SOFIE PMC measurements: Cloud identification and derivation of mass density, particle shape, and particle size, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.07.009, 2009.

Hervig, Mark E., Larry L. Gordley, Lance E. Deaver, David E. Siskind, Michael H. Stevens, James M. Russell III, Scott M. Bailey, Linda Megner, and Charles G. Bardeen,  First Satellite Observations of Meteoric Smoke in the Upper Atmosphere, Geophys. Res. Letters, doi:10.1029/2009GL039737, 2009.

Hervig, M. E., Brooke, J. S. A., Feng, W., Bardeen, C. G., & Plane, J. M. C. (2017). Constraints on meteoric smoke composition and meteoric influx using SOFIE observations with models. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 13,495–13,505. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027657

Karlsson, B., C.E. Randall, S. Benze, M. Mills, V.L. Harvey, S.M. Bailey, J.M. Russell III, Intra-seasonal variability of polar mesospheric clouds due to inter-hemispheric coupling, Geophys. Res. Lett., VOL. 36,  L20802, doi:10.1029/2009GL040348, 2009.
Karlsson, B.; Randall, C. E.; Shepherd, T. G.; Harvey, V. L.; Lumpe, J.; Nielsen, K.; Bailey, S. M.; Hervig, M.; Russell, J. M., III  On the seasonal onset of polar mesospheric clouds and the breakdown of the stratospheric polar vortex in the Southern Hemisphere,  J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 116, No. D18, D18107 Article Online
Lumpe, J. D., S. M. Bailey, J. N. Carstens, C. E. Randall, D. Rusch, G. E. Thomas, K. Nielsen, C. Jeppesen, W. E. McClintock, A.W. Merkel, L. Riesberg, B. Templeman, G. Baumgarten, and J. M. Russell, III (2013), Retrieval of polar mesospheric cloud properties from CIPS: algorithm description, error analysis and cloud detection sensitivity, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., in review. Article PDF
Marshall, B. T., L. E. Deaver, R. E. Thompson, L. L. Gordley, M. J. McHugh, M. E. Hervig, and J. M. Russell III, Retrieval of temperature and pressure using broadband solar occultation: SOFIE approach and results, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 4, 893–907, 2011, doi:10.5194/amt-4-893-2011 Article Online
Marshall, B. T., Deaver, L. E., Thompson, R. E., Gordley, L. L., McHugh, M. J., Hervig, M. E., and Russell III, J. M.: Retrieval of temperature and pressure using broadband solar occultation: SOFIE approach and results, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., 3, 5743-5794, doi:10.5194/amtd-3-5743-2010, 2010. Article Online
McClintock, William, David W. Rusch, Gary E. Thomas, Aimee W. Merkel, Mark R. Lankton,  Virginia A. Drake, Scott M. Bailey, and James M. Russell III, The Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment On The Aeronomy Of Ice In The Mesosphere Mission: Instrument Concept,  Design, Calibration, And On-Orbit Performance, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.10.011, 2009.
Merkel, W. Aimee, David W. Rusch, Scott E. Palo, James M. Russell III, and Scott M. Bailey, Mesospheric planetary wave activity inferred from AIM-CIPS and TIMED-SABER for the northern summer 2007 PMC season. J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jasp.2006.05.01, 2009.
Merkel, A. W., Marsh, D. R., Gettelman, A., and Jensen, E. J.: On the relationship of polar mesospheric cloud ice water content, particle radius and mesospheric temperature and its use in multi-dimensional models, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 8889-8901, 2009.
Nielsen, Kim, Gerald E. Nedoluha, Amal Chandran, Loren C. Chang, Jodie Barker-Tvednes, Michael J. Taylor, Alyn Lambert, Michael J. Schwartz and James M. Russell III, Submitted to July, 2009 LPMR special Issue, , J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., January, 2010.
Nielsen, K., D.E. Siskind, S.D. Eckermann, K.W. Hoppel, L. Coy, J.P. McCormack, S. Benze, C.E. Randall, and M.E. Hervig, On the origin of mid-latitude mesospheric clouds: the July 2009 cloud outbreak, J. Geophys. Res., 2010.
Nielsen, Kim, Gerald E. Nedoluha, Amal Chandran, Loren C. Chang, Jodie Barker-Tvedtnes, Michael J. Taylor, Nick J. Mitchell, Alyn Lambert, Michael J. Schwartz, James M. Russell III, On the origin of mid-latitude mesospheric clouds: The July 2009 cloud outbreak, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 5 November 2010, ISSN 1364-6826, DOI: 10.1016/j.jastp.2010.10.015. Article Online
Quang et al., Microphysical parameters of mesospheric ice clouds derived from calibrated observations of polar mesosphere summer echoes at Bragg wavelengths of 2.8m and 30 cm, J. Geophys. Res., In review, 2010.
Rong, P. P., J. M. Russell III, M. E. Hervig, and S. M. Bailey (2012), The roles of temperature and water vapor at different stages of the polar mesospheric cloud season,J. Geophys. Res., 117 (D4), D04208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016464. Article Online
Rong, P., J. M. Russell III, L. Gordley, M. Hervig, L. Deaver, D. Siskind, P. Bernath, K. A. Walker (2010), Validation of v1.022 mesospheric water vapor observed by the SOFIE instrument onboard the AIM satellite, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D24314, doi:10.1029/2010JD014269, 2010.  Article Online 
Rong, P., J. M. Russell III, S. M. Bailey, and M. E. Hervig, The roles of temperature and water vapor at different stages of the PMC season, J. Geophys. Res., in review, 2011.
Rong, P.P., J.M. Russell III, C. E. Randall, S. M. Bailey, and A. Lambert, PMC brightness zonal variability and its correlation with temperature and water vapor, paper in final preparation for submission to JGR (expected submission, March 2013).
Rusch, D. W., G. E. Thomas, W. McClintock, A. W. Merkel, S. M. Bailey, J. M. Russell III, C. E. Randall, C. Jeppesen, and M. Callan, The Cloud Imaging and Particle Size Experiment on the Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere Mission: Cloud Morphology for the Northern 2007 season, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., 2009, doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.11.005, 2009.
Russell III, James M., Pingping Rong, Scott M. Bailey, Mark E. Hervig, and Svetlana V. Petelina,  Correlation between the Summer Mesopause and Polar Mesospheric Cloud Heights, Accepted by J. Geophys. Res., Accepted February 18, 2010. [PDF]
Russell III, James M., Scott M. Bailey, Mihaly Horanyi, Larry L. Gordley, David W. Rusch, Mark E. Hervig, Gary E. Thomas, Cora E. Randall, David E. Siskind, Michael H. Stevens, Michael E. Summers, Michael I. Taylor, Christoph R. Englert, Patrick J. Espy, William E. McClintock and Aimee W. Merkel, Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM): Overview and early science results, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.08.011, 2009.
Russell J.M., III, P. P. Rong, M.E. Hervig, S.M. Bailey, J. Gumbel, A. Lambert, Analysis of low latitude Noctilucent Cloud occurrences using satellite data and modeling, paper in final preparation for submission to JGR (expected submission, March 2013). Article PDF
Russell, J. M., III, P. Rong, S. M. Bailey, M. E. Hervig, and S. V. Petelina (2010), Relationship between the summer mesopause and polar mesospheric cloud heights, J. Geophys. Res., 115, D16209, doi:10.1029/2010JD013852. Article Online
S. Robertson, M. Horányi, S. Knappmiller, Z. Sternovsky, R. Holzworth, M. Shimogawa, M. Friedrich, K. Torkar, J. Gumbel, L. Megner, G. Baumgarten, R. Latteck, M. Rapp, U.-P. Hoppe, and M. E. Hervig, Mass analysis of charged aerosol particles in NLC and PMSE during the ECOMA/MASS campaign, Ann Geophys, 27, 1213-1232, 2009.
Sheese, P. E., K. Strong, E. J. Llewellyn, R. L. Gattinger, J. M. Russell III, C. D.Boone, M. E. Hervig, R. J. Sica, and J. Bandoro, (2012) Validation of OSIRIS mesospheric temperatures using satellite and ground-based measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., 5, 5493-5526, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amtd-5-5493-2012. Article Online
Siskind, D. E., M. H. Stevens, M. Hervig, F. Sassi, K. Hoppel, C. R. Englert, and A. J. Kochenash, Consenquences of recent Southern Hemisphere winter variability on polar mesospheric clouds, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., submitted, 2011. 
Stephen D. Eckermann, Karl W. Hoppel, Lawrence Coy, John P. McCormack, David E. Siskind, Kim Nielsen, Andrew Kochenash, Michael H. Stevens, Christoph R. Englert, Mark Hervig, High-Altitude Data Assimilation System Experiments for the Northern Summer Mesosphere Season of 2007, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.09.036. [PDF]
Stevens et al., The diurnal variation of noctilucent cloud frequency near 55ーN observed by SHIMMER, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., doi:10.1016/j.jastp.2008.10.009, 2009.
Stevens et al., Tidally induced variations of PMC altitudes and ice water content using a data assimilation system, J. Geophys. Res., in review, 2010. Article Online
Stevens, M. H., L. E. Deaver, M. E. Hervig, J. M. Russell III, D. E. Siskind, P. E. Sheese, E. J. Llewellyn, R. L. Gattinger, J. Höffner, and B. T. Marshall (2012), Validation of upper mesospheric and lower thermospheric temperatures measured by the Solar Occultation for Ice Experiment, J. Geophys. Res., 117, D16304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JD017689. Article Online
Stevens, M. H., S. Lossow, J. Fiedler, G. Baumgarten, F.-J. Lübken, K. Hallgren, P. Hartogh, C. E. Randall, J. Lumpe, S. M. Bailey, R. Niciejewski, R. R. Meier, J. M. C. Plane, A. J. Kochenash, D. P. Murtagh, C. R. Englert (2012),Bright polar mesospheric clouds formed by main engine exhaust from the space shuttle's final launch, J. Geophys. Res., 117, No. D19, D19206, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012JD017638 Article Online
Suzuki, H., T. Nakamura, M. K. Ejiri, T. Ogawa, M. Tsutsumi, M. Abo, T. D. Kawahara, Y. Tomikawa,
A. S. Yukimatu, and N. Sato, Simultaneous PMC and PMSE observations with a ground-based lidar and
SuperDARN HF radar at Syowa Station, Antarctica, Ann. Geophys., 31, 1793-1803, 2013
www.ann-geophys.net/31/1793/2013/doi:10.5194/angeo-31-1793-2013. Article Online [PDF]
Thomas, G. E., D. Marsh and F.-J. Lübken, Mesospheric Ice clouds as indicators of upper atmosphere climate change, Accepted by EOS, February 16, 2010.
Thurairajah, B., S. M. Bailey, D. E. Siskind, C. E. Randall, M. J. Taylor, J. M Russell III (2013), Case study of an ice void structure in polar mesospheric clouds. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics, J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2013.02.001.
Thurairajah, B., S. M. Bailey, K. Nielsen, C. E. Randall, J. Lumpe, M. J. Taylor, J. M. Russell III (2012), Morphology of polar mesospheric clouds as seen from space. J. Atmos. Solar-Terr. Phys., http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2012.09.009 Article Online
Yue J., H.-L. Liu, R.R. Meier, L. Chang, S.-Y. Gu, J. Russell , 2013, On the fast zonal transport of the STS-121 space shuttle exhaust plume in the lower thermosphere, JASTP, 19-27, doi: 10.1016/j.jastp.2012.12.017http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364682613000102

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