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  • Tracer transport in the Martian atmosphere as simulated by a Mars GCM

    Creator:
    Walsh, Thomas D.
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    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...
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    strength of eddy mixing. Others [Conrath, 1971; Zurek, 1976; Kong and McElroy, 1977; Toon et al., 1977

  • A mesoscale model study of atmospheric circulations for the northern hemisphere summer on Mars

    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...
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    and responsible for significant atmospheric thermal tides (Wilson and Hamilton, 1996; Zurek and

  • The effects of clouds on transient baroclinic eddies in a Mars General Circulation Model

    Creator:
    Rucker, Michael S.
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    The low-level baroclinic eddy activity seen in the NASA Ames Mars General Circulation Model (MGCM) for simulations under three annual dust cycles are characterized. Simulations were conducted with both radiatively active and radiatively inert clouds (RAC and non-RAC, respectively) for 11 continuous annual cycles for each dust case. Model results...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Mars’ dust storm season, which nominally occurs between Ls = 160-330◦ [Martin and Zurek, 1993]. The

  • Modeling of forced planetary waves in the Mars atmosphere

    Creator:
    Hollingsworth, Jeffery L.
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    Mariner 9 and Viking spacecraft observations during the 1970's have provided evidence for planetary-scale wave-like disturbances in the Mars atmosphere. It has been suggested that possible sources of the wave activity are dynamical instabilities (e.g., barotropic and/or baroclinic instabilities). An other candidate source is forced, quasi-stationary planetary waves. In connection...
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    6.11 As in Fig. 6.5 but using ar = (h) shown in Fig. 3.1: (a) at 52.5°N, wave driving DF (m i day

  • Baroclinic eddies in the Martian atmosphere : a general circulation model study

    Creator:
    Matheson, Mark
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    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...
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    Rossby radius of deformation (A = NH/f, where N is the static stability, H is the scale height of the

  • Diurnal and subdiurnal variability in the Mars Pathfinder Presidential meteorology sessions

    Creator:
    Bennett, Scott
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    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...
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    each Viking Lander site. (See, for ex- ample, Leovy [1981], Zurek et al. [1992], and the obvious