Water Transport in the Martian Polar Atmosphere

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Dec 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agufm.p12e..08t&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2001, abstract #P12E-08

Physics

5409 Atmospheres: Structure And Dynamics, 5462 Polar Regions, 6225 Mars

Scientific paper

Global models of the Martian water cycle suggest that exchange of water with the northern residual ice cap is the key determinant of bulk atmospheric humidity. Unfortunately, pre-MGS data on the behavior of water in the northern summer polar atmosphere has been sparse, and global climate models used to simulate the water cycle are known to provide poor representation of atmospheric motions in the polar regions (due to the longitude-convergence problem). Here, we present the first study of water transport in the northern polar summer atmosphere using a Mesoscale model (the Mars MM5), which does not suffer from the polar defects evident in GCM's. We combine this analysis with newly processed TES data on the distribution of water vapor.

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