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Surface warming during the 2018/MY 34 Mars Global Dust Storm
dataset
posted on 2019-05-30, 07:50 authored by Paul StreeterPaul Streeter, Stephen LewisStephen Lewis, Manish PatelManish Patel, James HolmesJames HolmesThe Surface warming during the 2018/MY 34 Mars Global Dust Storm database is composed of reanalysis products combining past spacecraft observations
with a state-of-the-art Mars Global Circulation Model (MGCM), and free-running simulations of the MGCM.
Spacecraft observations of column dust optical depth and temperature
profiles from the Mars Climate Sounder (MCS) instrument on the
Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are combined with an MGCM used at the
Open University. The standard database includes 2-hourly output of key variables such as surface temperature, surface pressure, surface shortwave and longwave flux, temperature
as a function of altitude, and column dust optical depth.
Further details on this dataset can be found in the Surface_warming_2018_GDS_dataset_reference.pdf document included in this repository.
Funding
Analysis of new atmospheric dust observations from Mars using global circulation model
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Find out more...JAH, SRL and MRP gratefully acknowledge the support of the UK Space Agency (UKSA) under grant ST/R001405/1; SRL and MRP also thank UKSA for support under grants ST/P001262/1 and ST/S00145X/1.
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MarsPlanetary atmospheresData assimilationAtmospheric physicsReanalysisGlobal Circulation Modeldust stormsPlanetary SciencePlanetary Science (excl. Extraterrestrial Geology)Solar System, Solar Physics, Planets and ExoplanetsAtmospheric AerosolsAtmospheric DynamicsAtmospheric RadiationAtmospheric SciencesAtmospheric Sciences not elsewhere classified
