Mechanism Of Intensification Of The Meridional Circulation During Dust Storms On Mars

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Sep 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009dps....41.4903k&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #41, #49.03

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Using a general circulation model for Martian atmosphere, we investigated the changes in the meridional circulation during planet-encircling dust storms on Mars that produce strong temperature inversions in the middle atmosphere over winter polar regions. It is shown that vigorous poleward and downward transport, and, consequently, the adiabatic heating are caused by dissipating thermal tides, planetary and resolved small-scale gravity waves and eddies in almost equal degree. The increase of tidal forcing is mainly due a stronger excitation in the summer hemisphere. Contribution of the stationary planetary wave (SPW) with the zonal wavenumber s=1 increases during dust storms due to intensified generation in the lower atmosphere as well as due to more favorable vertical propagation. SPW (s=2) varies less with the dust load, dissipates lower, and contributes to the warming only below 0.1 mb. Transient planetary wave (s=1, period 5 sols) with a barotropic/baroclinic vertical structure provides up to 1/3 of the forcing by SPW (s=1). For the first time, we demonstrated a significance of small-scale gravity waves and eddies in maintaining the meridional circulation in Martian middle atmosphere, at least in high winter latitudes during dust storms.

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