Mass analysis of charged aerosol particles in NLC and PMSE during the ECOMA/MASS campaign

S Robertson, M Horányi, S Knappmiller… - Annales …, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
MASS (Mesospheric Aerosol Sampling Spectrometer) is a multichannel mass spectrometer
for charged aerosol particles, which was flown from the Andøya Rocket Range, Norway …

Microphysical parameters of mesospheric ice clouds derived from calibrated observations of polar mesosphere summer echoes at Bragg wavelengths of 2.8 m and 30 …

Q Li, M Rapp, J Röttger, R Latteck… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The currently most widely accepted theory of polar mesosphere summer echoes (PMSE)
assumes that the echoes originate from turbulence‐induced scatter in combination with a …

Comprehensive T-matrix reference database: a 2009–2011 update

NT Zakharova, G Videen, NG Khlebtsov - Journal of Quantitative …, 2012 - Elsevier
The T-matrix method is one of the most versatile and efficient theoretical techniques widely
used for the computation of electromagnetic scattering by single and composite particles …

Nucleation of mesospheric cloud particles: Sensitivities and limits

H Wilms, M Rapp, A Kirsch - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleation of mesospheric ice particles is thought to occur via heterogeneous nucleation on
meteor smoke particles. However, several factors determining the nucleation rate are poorly …

Small-scale structures in neutrals and charged aerosol particles as observed during the ECOMA/MASS rocket campaign

B Strelnikov, M Rapp, I Strelnikova… - Annales …, 2009 - angeo.copernicus.org
We present results of in situ measurements of neutral temperature during the ECOMA/MASS
rocket campaign. We present and compare results of turbulence measurements conducted …

Studies of polar mesosphere summer echoes with the EISCAT VHF and UHF radars: Information contained in the spectral shape

I Strelnikova, M Rapp - Advances in Space Research, 2010 - Elsevier
The nature of PMSE in the VHF and UHF frequency range is considered taking into account
the shape of corresponding Doppler spectra. Assuming a turbulence-based model of PMSE …

Secondary charging effects due to icy dust particle impacts on rocket payloads

M Kassa, M Rapp, TW Hartquist… - Annales …, 2012 - angeo.copernicus.org
We report measurements of dust currents obtained with a small probe and a larger probe
during the flight of the ECOMA-4 rocket through the summer polar mesosphere. The payload …

On the detection of mesospheric meteoric smoke particles embedded in noctilucent cloud particles with rocket-borne dust probes

T Antonsen, O Havnes - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Mesospheric nanoparticles in the forms of water ice particles and meteoric smoke particles
(MSPs) exist in the middle atmosphere where they often play a decisive role in cloud …

Microphysical properties of mesospheric aerosols: an overview of in situ-results from the ECOMA project

M Rapp, I Strelnikova, B Strelnikov, M Friedrich… - Aeronomy of the Earth's …, 2011 - Springer
Six sounding rockets were launched within the ECOMA (=“Existence and Charge state Of
Meteoric smoke particles in the middle Atmosphere”) project to study the characteristics of …

A new method of inferring the size, number density, and charge of mesospheric dust from its in situ collection by the DUSTY probe

O Havnes, T Antonsen, G Baumgarten… - Atmospheric …, 2019 - amt.copernicus.org
We present a new method of analyzing measurements of mesospheric dust made with
DUSTY rocket-borne Faraday cup probes. It can yield the variation in fundamental dust …