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Armin Kleinboehl

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 169-237

Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

+1 818-393-6421

Fax:

+1 818-393-4619

Member of:

Planetary And Exoplanetary Atmospheres

Education

  • Diplom (M.Sc.), Physics, University of Frankfurt (Main), Germany (1999)
  • Ph.D., Atmospheric Physics, University of Bremen, Germany (2003)

Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2007 - present)
    • Research Scientist (2012 - present)
      • Deputy Principal Investigator, Mars Climate Sounder, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2018 - present)
      • Co-Investigator, Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery instrument, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (2018 - present)
      • Participating Scientist (in Residence), Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter (2020 - present)
      • Co-Investigator, JPL MkIV balloon interferometer (2021 - present)
    • Scientist (2007 - 2012)
      • Co-Investigator/Investigation Scientist, Mars Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectrometer, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (2010 - 2012)
      • Co-Investigator, ExoMars Climate Sounder, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (2010 - 2012)
      • Co-Investigator, Mars Climate Sounder, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2010 - 2018)
  • California Institute of Technology (2004 - 2007)
    • Post-Doctoral Scholar at JPL
  • University of Bremen (1999 - 2004)
    • Research Assistant

Research Interests

  • Development of measurement concepts for the atmospheres of Mars, Venus, and the ice giants
  • Remote sensing of the atmospheric structure of Mars and Venus using infrared observations from orbit
  • Remote sensing of the structure and chemical composition of Earth's middle atmosphere using balloon-borne infrared measurements
  • Radiative transfer for exoplanetary atmospheres

Selected Awards

  • JPL Voyager Award (2020)
  • NASA Group Achievement Award, InSight EDL Communications Team (2019)
  • JPL Voyager Award (2017)
  • JPL Research Poster Award (2016)
  • NASA Group Achievement Award, MSL Relay Operations Team (2013)
  • NASA Group Achievement Award, Mars Climate Sounder Team (2011)
  • JPL Team Award, ExoMars Proposal Team (2010)
  • NASA Group Achievement Award, Mars Climate Sounder Team (2010)
  • JPL Team Award, Mars Climate Sounder Team (2009)
  • NASA Group Achievement Award, SOLVE Science Team (2001)

Selected Publications

  1. Poncin, L., Kleinböhl, A., Kass, D. M., Clancy, R. T., Aoki, S., Vandaele, A. C., Water vapor saturation and ice cloud occurrence in the atmosphere of Mars, Planet. Space Sci., 212, 105390, 2022.
  2. Mischna, M. A., G. Villar, D. M. Kass, S. Dutta, S. Rafkin, D. Tyler, J. Barnes, B. Cantor, S. R. Lewis, D. Hinson, J. Pla-García, A. Kleinböhl, C. Karlgaard, Pre- and Post-Entry, Descent and Landing Assessment of the Martian Atmosphere for the Mars 2020 Rover, Planet. Sci. J., 3, 147, 2022.
  3. Heavens, N. G., A. Pankine, J. M. Battalio, C. Wright, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, S. Piqueux, J. T. Schofield, Mars Climate Sounder Observations of Gravity-wave Activity throughout Mars's Lower Atmosphere, Planet. Sci. J., 3, 57, 2022.
  4. Lillis, R. J., D. Mitchell, L. Montabone, N. Heavens, T. Harrison, C. Stuurman, S. Guzewich, S. England, P. Withers, M. Chaffin, S. Curry, C. Ao, S. Matousek, N. Barba, R. Woolley, A. Tripathi, I. Smith, G. R. Osinski, A. Kleinböhl, L. Tamppari, M. Mischna, D. Kass, M. Smith, M. Wolff, M. Kahre, A. Spiga, F. Forget, B. Cantor, J. Deighan, A. Brecht, S. Bougher, C. Fowler, D. Andrews, M. Pätzold, K. Peter, S. Tellmann, M. Lester, B. Sánchez-Cano, J. Luhmann, F. Leblanc, J. Halekas, D. Brain, X. Fang, J. Espley, H. Opgenoorth, O. Vaisberg, D. Hinson, S. Asmar, J. Vander Hook, O. Karatekin, A. Barjatya, A satellite constellation to enable groundbreaking Mars climate system science and prepare for human exploration, Planet. Sci. J., 2, 211, 2021.
  5. Steele, L. J., Kleinböhl, A., and Kass, D. M., Observations of ubiquitous nighttime temperature inversions in Mars' tropics after large-scale dust storms. Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL092651, 2021.
  6. Steele, L. J., Kleinböhl, A., Kass, D. M., and Zurek, R. W., Aerosols and tides in the martian tropics during southern hemisphere spring equinox from Mars Climate Sounder data. J. Geophys. Res., 126, e2020JE006776, 2021.
  7. Streeter, P. M., Lewis, S. R., Patel, M. R., Holmes, J. A., Fedorova, A. A., Kass, D. M., Kleinböhl, A., Asymmetric impacts on Mars’ polar vortices from an equinoctial Global Dust Storm, J. Geophys. Res., 126, e2020JE006774, 2021.
  8. Chaffin, M. S., D. M. Kass, S. Aoki, A. A. Fedorova, J. Deighan, K. Connour, N. G. Heavens, A. Kleinböhl, S. K. Jain, J.-Y. Chaufray, M. Mayyasi, J. T. Clarke, A. I. F. Stewart, J. S. Evans, M. H. Stevens, W. E. McClintock, M. M. J. Crismani, G. M. Holsclaw, F. Lefevre, D. Y. Lo, F. Montmessin, N. M. Schneider, B. Jakosky, G. Villanueva, G. Liuzzi, F. Daerden, I. R. Thomas, J.-J. Lopez-Moreno, M. R. Patel, G. Bellucci, B. Ristic, J. T. Erwin, A. C. Vandaele, A. Trokhimovskiy and O. I. Korablev, Martian water loss to space enhanced by regional dust storms, Nat. Astron., 5, 1036–1042, 2021. Doi:10.1038/s41550-021-01425-w
  9. Kleinbӧhl, A., Spiga, A., Kass, D. M., Shirley, J. H., Millour, E., Montabone, L., Forget, F., Diurnal variations of dust during the 2018 global dust storm observed by the Mars Climate Sounder. J. Geophys. Res., 125, e2019JE006115, 2020.
  10. Shirley, J. H., A. Kleinbӧhl, D. M. Kass, L. J. Steele, N. G. Heavens, S. Suzuki, S. Piqueux, J. T. Schofield, and D. J. McCleese, Rapid expansion and evolution of a regional dust storm in the Acidalia Corridor during the initial growth phase of the Martian global dust storm of 2018, Geophys. Res. Lett., 47, e2019GL084317, 2020.
  11. Montabone, L., A. Spiga, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinbӧhl, F. Forget, and E. Millour, 2020. Martian year 34 column dust climatology from Mars Climate Sounder Observations: Reconstructed Maps and Model Simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 125, e2019JE006111, 2020.
  12. Gary-Bicas, C. E., P. O. Hayne, T. Horvath, N. G. Heavens, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinbӧhl, S. Piqueux, J. H. Shirley, J. T. Schofield, and D. J. McCleese, Asymmetries in snowfall, emissivity, and albedo of Mars’ seasonal polar caps: Mars Climate Sounder Observations, J. Geophys. Res., 125, e2019JE006150, 2020.
  13. Forbes, J. M., X. Zhang, F. Forget, E. Millour, and A. Kleinböhl, Solar Tides in the Middle and Upper Atmosphere of Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 125, e2020JA028140, 2020.
  14. Heavens, N. G., D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, and J. T. Schofield, A multiannual record of gravity wave activity in Mars’ lower atmosphere from on-planet observations by the Mars Climate Sounder, Icarus, 341, 113630, 2020.
  15. Gilli, G., F. Forget, A. Spiga, T. Navarro, E. Millour, L. Montabone, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, D. J. McCleese, J. T. Schofield, Impact of gravity waves on the middle atmosphere of Mars: A study combining Global Climate modelling and MCS observations, J. Geophys. Res., 125, e2018JE005873, 2020.
  16. Smith, I. B., P. O. Hayne, S. Byrne, P. Becerra, M. Kahre, W. Calvin, C. Hvidberg, S. Milkovich, P. Buhler, M. Landis, B. Horgan, A. Kleinböhl, M. R. Perry, R. Obbard, J. Stern, S. Piqueux, N. Thomas, K. Zacny, L. Carter, L. Edgar, J. Emmett, T. Navarro, J. Hanley, M. Koutnik, N. Putzig, B. L. Henderson, J. W. Holt, B. Ehlmann, S. Parra, D. Lalich, C, Hansen, M. Hecht, D. Banfield, K. Herkenhoff, D. A. Paige, M Skidmore, R. L. Staehle, M. Siegler, The Holy Grail: A road map for unlocking the climate record stored within Mars’ polar layered deposits, Planet. Space Sci., 184, 104841, 2020.
  17. Kass, D. M., J. T. Schofield, A. Kleinbӧhl, D. J. McCleese, N. G. Heavens, J. H. Shirley, and L. J. Steele, Mars Climate Sounder observations of Mars’ 2018 global dust storm, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, e2019GL083931, 2019.
  18. Piqueux, S., Buz, J., Edwards, C. S., Bandfield, J. L., Kleinböhl, A., Kass, D. M., Hayne, P. O., the MCS and THEMIS Teams, Widespread shallow water ice on Mars at high latitudes and midlatitudes, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 14290–14298, 2019.
  19. Clancy, R. T., M. J. Wolff, M. D. Smith, A. Kleinböhl, B. A. Cantor, S. L. Murchie, A. D. Toigo, K. Seelos, F. Lefevre, F. Montmessin, F. Daerden, The Distribution, Composition, and Particle Properties of Mars Mesospheric Aerosols: An Analysis of CRISM Vis-NearIR Limb Spectra with Context from Near-Coincident MCS and MARCI Observations, Icarus, 328, 246-273, 2019.

20. Greybush, S. J., E. Kalnay, R. J. Wilson, R. N. Hoffman, T. Nehrkorn, M. Leidner, J. Eluszkiewicz, H. E. Gillespie, M. Wespetal, Y. Zhao, M. Hoffman, T. McConnochie, A. Kleinböhl, D. Kass, D. McCleese, and T. Miyoshi, The Ensemble Mars Atmosphere Reanalysis System (EMARS) Version 1.0, Geosci. Data J., 6, 137-150, 2019.

21. Toon, G. C., Liebe, C. C., Nemati, B., Harris, I., Kleinböhl, A., Allen, M., Hipkin, V., Drummond, J., Soucy, M.-A., Yung, Y. L., Zeng, Z.-C., Wunch, D. and Wennberg, P. O., Solar occultation FTIR spectrometry at Mars for trace gas detection: A sensitivity study, Earth Space Sci., 6, 836–860, 2019.

22. Kleinböhl, A., K. Willacy, A. J. Friedson, P. Chen, M. R. Swain, Buildup of Abiotic Oxygen and Ozone in Moist Atmospheres of Temperate Terrestrial Exoplanets and its Impact on the Spectral Fingerprint in Transit Observations, Astrophys. J., 862, 92, 2018.

23. Heavens, N. G., A. Kleinböhl, M. S. Chaffin, J. S. Halekas, D. M. Kass, P. O. Hayne, D. J. McCleese, S. Piqueux, J. H. Shirley, J. T. Schofield, Hydrogen escape from Mars enhanced by deep convection in dust storms, Nat. Astron., 2, 126-132, 2018.

24. Yung, Y. L., P. Chen, K. Nealson, S. Atreya, P. Beckett, J. G. Blank, B. Ehlmann, J. Eiler, G. Etiope, J. G. Ferry, F. Forget, P. Gao, R. Hu, A. Kleinböhl, R. Klusman, F. Lefevre, C. Miller, M. Mischna, M. Mumma, S. Newman, D. Oehler, M. Okumura, R. Oremland, V. Orphan, R. Popa, M. Russell, L. Shen, B. Sherwood Lollar, R. Staehle, V. Stamenkovic, A. Templeton, A. C. Vandaele, Sebastien Viscardy, C. R. Webster, P. O. Wennberg, M. L. Wong, and J. Worden, Methane on Mars and Habitability: Challenges and Responses, Astrobiol., 18, doi:10.1089/ast.2017.1726, 2018.

25. López-Valverde, M. A., J.-C. Gerard, F. González-Galindo, A. C. Vandaele, I. Thomas, O. Korablev, N. Ignatiev, A. Fedorova, F. Montmessin, A. Määttänen, S. Guilbon, F. Lefevre, M. R. Patel, S. Jiménez-Monferrer, M. García-Comas, A. Cardesin, C. F. Wilson, R. T. Clancy, A. Kleinböhl, D. J. McCleese, D. M. Kass, N. M. Schneider, M. S. Chaffin, J. J. López-Moreno, J. Rodríguez, Investigations of the Mars Upper Atmosphere with ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, Space Sci. Rev., 214, 29, doi:10.1007/s11214-017-0463-4, 2018.

26. Guzewich, S. D., Newman, C. E., Smith, M. D., Moores, J. E., Smith, C. L., Moore, C., Richardson, M. I., Kass, D., Kleinböhl, A., Mischna, M., Martín-Torres, F. J., Zorzano-Mier, M.-P., Battalio, M., The vertical dust profile over Gale Crater, Mars. J. Geophys. Res., 122, 2779–2792, 2017.

27. Kleinböhl, A., A. J. Friedson, and J. T. Schofield, Two-dimensional radiative transfer for the retrieval of limb emission measurements in the Martian atmosphere, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 187, 511-522, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2016.07.009, 2017.

28. Piqueux, S., A. Kleinböhl, P. O. Hayne, N. G. Heavens, D. M. Kass, D. J. McCleese, J. T. Schofield, J. H. Shirley, Discovery of a widespread low-latitude diurnal CO2 frost cycle, and implication for dust mobility on Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 121, 1174-1189, 2016.

29. Kass, D. M., A. Kleinböhl, D. J. McCleese, J. T. Schofield and M. D. Smith, Interannual similarity in the Martian atmosphere during the dust storm season, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 6111-6118, 2016.

30. Kleinböhl, A., J. T. Schofield, D. M. Kass, W. A. Abdou, and D. J. McCleese, No widespread dust in the middle atmosphere of Mars from Mars Climate Sounder observations, Icarus, 261, 118-121, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.08.010, 2015.

31. Heavens, N. G., B. A. Cantor, P. O. Hayne, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, D. J. McCleese, S. Piqueux, J. T. Schofield, J. H. Shirley, Extreme Detached Dust Layers near Martian Volcanoes: Evidence for Dust Transport by Mesoscale Circulations Forced by High Topography, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, 3730-3738, doi:10.1002/2015GL064004, 2015.

32. Piqueux, S., A. Kleinböhl, P. O. Hayne, D. M. Kass, J. T. Schofield, D. J. McCleese, Variability of the martian seasonal CO2 cap extent over eight Mars Years, Icarus, 251, 164-180, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.10.045, 2015.

33. Montabone, L., F. Forget, E. Millour, R.J. Wilson, S.R. Lewis, B. Cantor, D. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, M.T. Lemmon, M.D. Smith, M.J. Wolff, Eight-year climatology of dust optical depth on Mars, Icarus, 251, 65-95, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.12.034, 2015.

34. Shirley, J. H., T. H. McConnochie, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, J. T. Schofield, N. G. Heavens, D. J. McCleese, J. Benson, D. P. Hinson, J. L. Bandfield, Temperatures and aerosol opacities of the Mars atmosphere at aphelion: Validation and inter-comparison of limb sounding profiles from MRO/MCS and MGS/TES, Icarus, 251, 26-49, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.05.011, 2015.

35. Kleinböhl, A., M. Khosravi, J. Urban, T. Canty, R. J. Salawitch, G. C. Toon, H. Küllmann, and J. Notholt, Constraints for the photolysis rate and the equilibrium constant of ClO-dimer from airborne and balloon-borne measurements of chlorine compounds, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 6916–6937, doi:10.1002/2013JD021433, 2014.

36. Hinson, D. P., S. W. Asmar, D. S. Kahan, V. Akopian, R. M. Haberle, A. Spiga, J. T. Schofield, A. Kleinböhl, W. A. Abdou, S. R. Lewis, M. Paik, and S. G. Maalouf, Initial results from radio occultations with MRO: A nocturnal mixed layer in the tropics and comparisons with polar profiles from the MCS, Icarus, 243, 91-103, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.09.019, 2014.

37. Heavens, N. G., M. S. Johnson, W. A. Abdou, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, D. J. McCleese, J. H. Shirley, and R. J. Wilson, Seasonal and diurnal variability of detached dust layers in the Mars atmosphere, J. Geophys. Res., 119, 1748-1774, doi:10.1002/2014JE004619, 2014.

38. Kleinböhl, A., R. J. Wilson, D. Kass, J. T. Schofield, and D. J. McCleese, The semi-diurnal tide in the middle atmosphere of Mars, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 1952-1959, doi:10.1002/grl.50497, 2013.

39. Smith, M. D., M. J. Wolff, R. T. Clancy, A. Kleinböhl, and S. L. Murchie, Vertical distribution of dust and water ice aerosols from CRISM limb-geometry observations, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 321–334, doi:10.1002/jgre.20047, 2013.

40. McDunn T., S. Bougher, J. Murphy, A. Kleinböhl, F. Forget, and M. Smith, Characterization of middle-atmosphere polar warming at Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 161–178, doi:10.1002/jgre.20016, 2013.

41. Clancy, R. T., B. J. Sandor, M. J. Wolff, M. D. Smith, F. Lefèvre, J.-B. Madeleine, F. Forget, S. L. Murchie, F. P. Seelos, K. D. Seelos, H. A. Nair, A. D. Toigo, D. Humm, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, N. Heavens, Extensive MRO CRISM observations of 1.27 μm O2 airglow in Mars polar night and their comparison to MRO MCS temperature profiles and LMD GCM simulations, J. Geophys. Res., 117, E00J10, doi:10.1029/2011JE004018, 2012.

42. Hayne, P. O., D. A. Paige, J. T. Schofield, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, N. G. Heavens, and D. J. McCleese, Carbon dioxide snow clouds on Mars: South polar winter observations by the Mars Climate Sounder, J. Geophys. Res., 117, E08014, doi:10.1029/2011JE004040, 2012.

43. Kleinböhl, A., J. T. Schofield, W. A. Abdou, P. G. J. Irwin, R. J. de Kok, A single-scattering approximation for infrared radiative transfer in limb geometry in the Martian atmosphere, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 112, 1568–1580, doi:10.1016/j.jqsrt.2011.03.006, 2011.

44. Jacquinet-Husson, N., L. Crepeau, R. Armante, C. Boutammine, A. Chedin, N. A. Scott, C. Crevoisier, V. Capelle, C. Boone, N. Poulet-Crovisier, A. Barbe, A. Campargue, D. Chris Benner, Y. Benilan, B. Bezard, V. Boudon, L. R. Brown, L. H. Coudert, A. Coustenis, V. Dana, V. M. Devi, S. Fally, A. Fayt, J.-M. Flaud, A. Goldman, M. Herman, G.J. Harris, D. Jacquemart, A. Jolly, I. Kleiner, A. Kleinböhl, F. Kwabia-Tchana, N. Lavrentieva, N. Lacome, Li-Hong Xu, O. M. Lyulin, J.-Y. Mandin, A. Maki, S. Mikhailenko, C. E. Miller, T. Mishina, N. Moazzen-Ahmadi, H. S. P. Müller, A. Nikitin, J. Orphal, V. Perevalov, A. Perrin, D. T. Petkie, A. Predoi-Cross, C. P. Rinsland, J. J. Remedios, M. Rotger, M. A. H. Smith, K. Sung, S. Tashkun, J. Tennyson, R. A. Toth, A.-C. Vandaele, J. VanderAuwera, The 2009 edition of the GEISA spectroscopic database, J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transfer, 112, 2395-2445, 2011.

45. Kuttippurath, J., A. Kleinböhl, M. Sinnhuber, H. Bremer, H. Küllmann, J. Notholt, S. Godin‐Beekmann, O. Tripathi, and G. Nikulin, Arctic ozone depletion in 2002–2003 measured by ASUR and comparison with POAM observations, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D22305, doi:10.1029/2011JD016020, 2011.

46. Velazco, V. A., G. C. Toon, J.‐F. L. Blavier, A. Kleinböhl, G. L. Manney, W. H. Daffer, P. F. Bernath, K. A. Walker, and C. Boone, Validation of the Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment by noncoincident MkIV balloon profiles, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D06306, doi:10.1029/2010JD014928, 2011.

47. Benson, J. L., Kass, D. M., Kleinböhl, A., Mars’ north polar hood as observed by the Mars Climate Sounder, J. Geophys. Res., 116, E03008, 10.1029/2010JE003693, 2011.

48. Heavens, N. G, M. I. Richardson, A. Kleinböhl, D. M. Kass, D. J. McCleese, W. Abdou, J. L. Benson, J. T. Schofield, J. H. Shirley, P. M. Wolkenberg, The vertical distribution of dust in the Martian atmosphere during northern spring and summer: High-altitude tropical dust maximum at northern summer solsticeObservations by the Mars Climate Sounder and analysis of zonal average vertical dust profiles, J. Geophys. Res., 116, E01007, 10.1029/2010JE003692, 2011.

49. Heavens, N. G, M. I. Richardson, A. Kleinböhl, D. M. Kass, D. J. McCleese, W. Abdou, J. L. Benson, J. T. Schofield, J. H. Shirley, P. M. Wolkenberg, The vertical distribution of dust in the Martian atmosphere during northern spring and summer: Observations by the Mars Climate Sounder and analysis of zonal average vertical dust profiles, J. Geophys. Res., 116, E04003, doi:10.1029/2010JE003691, 2011.

50. Heavens, N. G., D. J. McCleese, M. I. Richardson, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, J. T. Schofield, Structure and dynamics of the Martian lower and middle atmosphere as observed by the Mars Climate Sounder: 2. Implications of the thermal structure and aerosol distributions for the mean meridional circulation, J. Geophys. Res., 116, E01010, 10.1029/2010JE003713, 2011.

51. Kuttippurath, J., Kleinböhl, A., Bremer, H., Küllmann, H., Notholt, J., Sinnhuber, B.-M., Feng, W., Chipperfield, M., Aircraft measurements and model simulations of stratospheric ozone and N2O: Implications for chemistry and transport processes in the models, J. Atmos. Chem., 66, 41–64, 2010.

52. McCleese, D. J., N. G. Heavens, J. T. Schofield, W. A. Abdou, J. L. Bandfield, S. B. Calcutt, P. G. J. Irwin, D. M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, S. R. Lewis, D. A. Paige, P. L. Read, M. I. Richardson, J. H. Shirley, F. W. Taylor, N. Teanby, R. W. Zurek, Structure and dynamics of the Martian lower and middle atmosphere as observed by the Mars Climate Sounder: Seasonal variations in zonal mean temperature, dust, and water ice aerosols, J. Geophys. Res., 115, E12016, 10.1029/2010JE003677, 2010.

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

54. Benson, J. L., Kass, D. M., Kleinböhl, A., McCleese, D. J., Schofield, J. T., Taylor, F. W., Mars’ South Polar Hood as observed by the Mars Climate Sounder, J. Geophys. Res., 115, E12015, 10.1029/2009JE003554, 2010.

55. Heavens, N. G., Richardson, M. I., Lawson, W. G., Lee, C., McCleese, D. J., Kass, D. M., Kleinböhl, A., Schofield, J. T., Abdou, W. A., Shirley, J. H., Convective instability in the Martian middle atmosphere, Icarus, 208, 574–589, 2010.

56. Notholt, J., Toon, G. C., Fueglistaler, S., Wennberg, P. O., Irion, F. W., McCarthy, M., Scharringhausen, M., Siek Rhee, T., Kleinböhl, A., Velazco, V., Trend in ice moistening the stratosphere – constraints from isotope data of water and methane, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 201-207, 2010.

57. Tamppari, L. K., Bass, D., Cantor, B., Daubar, I., Dickinson, C., Fisher, D., Fujii, K., Gunnlauggson, H. P., Hudson, T. L., Kass, D. M., Kleinböhl, A., Komguem, L., Lemmon, M. T., Mellon, M., Moores, J., Pankine, A., Pathak, J., Searls, M., Seelos, F., Smith, M. D., Smrekar, S., Taylor, P., Holstein-Rathlou, C., Weng, W., Whiteway, J., Wolff, M. J., Phoenix and MRO Coordinated Atmospheric Measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 115, E00E17, 10.1029/2009JE003415, 2010.

58. Kleinböhl, A., Schofield, J. T., Kass, D. M., Abdou, W. A., Backus, C. R., Sen, B., Shirley, J. H, Lawson, W. G., Richardson, M. I., Taylor, F. W., Teanby, N. A., McCleese, D. J., Mars Climate Sounder Limb Profile Retrieval of atmospheric Temperature, Pressure, Dust and Water ice opacity, J. Geophys. Res., 114, E10006, 10.1029/2009JE003358, 2009.

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

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66. Kleinböhl, A., Toon, G. C., Sen, B., Blavier, J.-F. L., Weisenstein, D. K., Strekowski, R. S., Nicovich, J. M., Wine, P. H., Wennberg, P. O., On the stratospheric chemistry of hydrogen cyanide, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L11806, 10.1029/2006GL026015, 2006.

67. Kleinböhl, A., Toon, G. C., Sen, B., Blavier, J.-F. L., Weisenstein, D. K., Wennberg, P. O., Infrared measurements of atmospheric CH3CN, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L23807, 10.1029/2005GL024283, 2005.

68. Kleinböhl, A., Bremer, H., Küllmann, H., Kuttippurath, J., Browell, E. V., Canty, T., Salawitch, R. J., Toon, G. C., Notholt, J., Denitrification in the Arctic mid-winter 2004/2005 observed by airborne submillimeter radiometry, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, L19811, 10.1029/2005GL023408, 2005.

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75. Bremer, H., von König, M., Kleinböhl, A., Küllmann, H., Künzi, K., Bramstedt, K., Burrows, J. P., Eichmann, K.-U., Weber, M., Goede, A. P. H., Ozone depletion observed by ASUR during the Arctic winter 1999/2000, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 8277, 10.1029/2001JD000546, 2002.

76. Carslaw, K. S., Kettleborough, J., Northway, M. J., Davies, S., Gao, R. S., Fahey, D. W., Baumgardner, D., Chipperfield, M. P., Kleinböhl, A., A vortex-scale simulation of the growth and sedimentation of large nitric acid particles observed during SOLVE/THESEO-2000, J. Geophys. Res., 107, 8300, 10.1029/2001JD000467, 2002.

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