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Creator:: Walsh, Thomas D.
Abstract:: This paper investigates the atmospheric circulation and transport characteristics of the Martian atmosphere (as modeled by a Mars GCM) for three sets of conditions. The conditions are based on a combination of season and dust loading (as parameterized by the optical depth, τ). The first experiment is for the Northern...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: strength of eddy mixing. Others [Conrath, 1971; Zurek, 1976; Kong and McElroy, 1977; Toon et al., 1977

Creator:: Tyler, Daniel Jr
Abstract:: The Penn-State/NCAR MM5 mesoscale model was adapted for mesoscale simulations of the Martian atmosphere (the OSU MMM5). The NASA Ames Mars GCM provides initial and boundary conditions. High-resolution maps for albedo, thermal inertia and topography were developed from Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) data; these baseline maps are processed to appropriate...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: and responsible for significant atmospheric thermal tides (Wilson and Hamilton, 1996; Zurek and

Creator:: Tyler, Daniel and Barnes, Jeffrey R.
Abstract:: The Oregon State University Mars MM5 was used in a comprehensive high-resolution study of northern polar summertime circulations. Three simulations (Ls = 120, Ls = 135, and Ls = 150) characterize the changing circulation. The atmosphere is dry, and model dynamics are hydrostatic. A modified TES thermal inertia map provides...
Resource Type:: Article
Full Text:: water mass) caused their results to be ambiguous (H. Houben, personal communication, 2004). Richardson

Creator:: Matheson, Mark
Abstract:: A variety of general circulation model experiments are performed to investigate the influence of seasonality and topography on the strength of baroclinic eddies in the Martian atmosphere. Three different models are used: a full physics model, a simplified physics model, and a zonally symmetric simplified physics model. All three models...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Rossby radius of deformation (A = NH/f, where N is the static stability, H is the scale height of the

Creator:: Bennett, Scott
Abstract:: The Mars Pathfinder (MPF) arrived on the Martian surface on 4 July 1997 to become only the third successful landed mission to Mars, recording surface meteorological data intermittently over a period of 83 Martian days ("sols"). The in situ observations made by the MPF meteorology (MET) experiment were recorded at...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: each Viking Lander site. (See, for ex- ample, Leovy [1981], Zurek et al. [1992], and the obvious

Creator:: Behrenfeld, Michael Joseph
Abstract:: Global increases in ultraviolet-B radiation (UVBR:290- 320 nm) resulting from decreases in stratospheric ozone concentration have the potential to alter marine primary production and affect global climate and marine trophic dynamics. Effects of UVBR on phytoplankton carbon fixation were determined from open ocean exposure studies conducted off the coast of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: concentrated HC1 for 3 mm to remove inorganic carbon. Carbon uptake rates (rag C m h') were determined by

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