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Overview

Larry L. Gordley is affiliated with the Langley Research Center in the United States. Their research contributions predominantly span the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered by Gordley's research include:

  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Planetary Science and Exploration

Gordley's recent publications provide insight into their research focus and collaborative work. These include:

  • "Trends in the polar summer mesosphere temperature and pressure altitude from satellite observations," 2021, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
  • "Sounding of the Atmosphere Using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER): Instrument and Science Measurement Description," 2023, Earth and Space Science
  • "Radiometric Stability of the SABER Instrument," 2020, Earth and Space Science
  • "Improving ionospheric predictability requires accurate simulation of the mesospheric polar vortex," 2022, Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • "Technical note: LIMS observations of lower stratospheric ozone in the southern polar springtime of 1978," 2020, Atmospheric chemistry and physics

Gordley has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • James M. Russell
  • S. M. Bailey
  • D. E. Siskind
  • Roy W. Esplin
  • M. G. Mlynczak

The scientific venues where Gordley has published often reflect their interdisciplinary expertise and include:

  • Earth and Space Science
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
  • Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • The Halogen Occultation Experiment

    James M. Russell;Larry L. Gordley;Jae H. Park;S. Roland Drayson

  • Overview of the SABER experiment and preliminary calibration results

    James M. Russell;Martin G. Mlynczak;Larry L. Gordley;Joseph J. Tansock

  • Assessment of the quality of the Version 1.07 temperature‐versus‐pressure profiles of the middle atmosphere from TIMED/SABER

    Ellis E. Remsberg;B. T. Marshall;M. Garcia-Comas;D. Krueger

  • Retrieval of mesospheric and lower thermospheric kinetic temperature from measurements of CO2 15 µm Earth Limb Emission under non‐LTE conditions

    Christopher J. Mertens;Martin G. Mlynczak;Manuel López-Puertas;Peter P. Wintersteiner

  • Stratospheric effects of energetic particle precipitation in 2003–2004

    C. E. Randall;V.L. Harvey;G.L. Manney;G.L. Manney;Y. J. Orsolini

  • Transport of ozone in the middle stratosphere: evidence for planetary wave breaking

    C. B. Leovy;C.-R. Sun;M. H. Hitchman;E. E. Remsberg

  • First confirmation that water ice is the primary component of polar mesospheric clouds

    Mark Hervig;Robert E. Thompson;Martin McHugh;Larry L. Gordley

  • The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission: Overview and early science results

    James M. Russell;Scott M. Bailey;Larry L. Gordley;David W. Rusch

  • SABER observations of mesospheric temperatures and comparisons with falling sphere measurements taken during the 2002 summer MaCWAVE campaign

    Christopher J. Mertens;Francis J. Schmidlin;Richard A. Goldberg;Ellis E. Remsberg

  • Validation of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide measurements made by the Halogen Occultation Experiment for UARS platform

    L. L. Gordley;J. M. Russell;L. J. Mickley;J. E. Frederick

  • Validation of measurements of water vapor from the Halogen Occultation Experiment (HALOE)

    J. E. Harries;J. M. Russell;A. F. Tuck;L. L. Gordley

  • Observations of infrared radiative cooling in the thermosphere on daily to multiyear timescales from the TIMED/SABER instrument

    Martin G. Mlynczak;Linda A. Hunt;B. Thomas Marshall;F. Javier Martin-Torres

  • The natural thermostat of nitric oxide emission at 5.3 μm in the thermosphere observed during the solar storms of April 2002

    Martin G. Mlynczak;F. Javier Martin‐torres;James Russell;Ken Beaumont

  • The solar occultation for ice experiment

    Larry L. Gordley;Mark E. Hervig;Chad Fish;James M. Russell

  • Errors in Sounding of the Atmosphere Using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) Kinetic Temperature Caused by Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium Model Parameters

    M. García-Comas;M. López-Puertas;B. T. Marshall;P. P. Wintersteiner

  • The variability of stratospheric and mesospheric NO2 in the polar winter night observed by LIMS

    James M. Russell;Susan Solomon;Larry L. Gordley;Ellis E. Remsberg

  • Linepak: Algorithms for modeling spectral transmittance and radiance

    Larry L. Gordley;Benjamin T. Marshall;D. Allen Chu

  • Implications of the stratospheric water vapor distribution as determined from the Nimbus 7 LIMS experiment

    Ellis Remsberg;James M. Russell;Larry L. Gordley;John C. Gille

  • Rapid inversion of limb radiance data using an emissivity growth approximation

    Larry L. Gordley;James M. Russell

  • Validation of Halogen Occultation Experiment CH4 measurements from the UARS

    J. H. Park;J. M. Russell;L. L. Gordley;S. R. Drayson

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Russell
James M. Russell Brown University
Mark E. Hervig
Mark E. Hervig University of Wyoming
Ellis E. Remsberg
Ellis E. Remsberg Langley Research Center
Scott M. Bailey
Scott M. Bailey Virginia Tech
Martin G. Mlynczak
Martin G. Mlynczak Langley Research Center
David E. Siskind
David E. Siskind United States Naval Research Laboratory
Manuel López-Puertas
Manuel López-Puertas Spanish National Research Council
Cora E. Randall
Cora E. Randall University of Colorado Boulder
John C. Gille
John C. Gille National Center for Atmospheric Research
Gary E. Thomas
Gary E. Thomas University of Colorado Boulder

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