A Climate Database for the Martian Atmosphere

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Dec 1996

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Environment Modelling for Space-based Applications, Symposium Proceedings (ESA SP-392). ESTEC Noordwijk, 18-20 September 1996. E

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The Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, CNRS and Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Oxford University are currently engaged in a joint project, sponsored by ESA, to produce a database of atmospheric statistics of the Martian atmosphere to be used in the preparation of future missions to Mars. The database will be built using statistics from two numerical models of the Martian atmosphere (see the accompanying paper by Talagrand et al. `Numerical Modelling of the General Circulation of the Martian Atmosphere') that are currently being integrated over several Martian years and with several dust scenarios (dust levels observed during the Viking mission, relatively clear conditions and global dust storm conditions). Statistics will be stored at intervals of 12 times a day for 12 `seasons' at high horizontal and vertical resolution, and will include mean values of pressure, density, wind and temperature as well as estimates of the large scale variability of those variables. Estimates of small scale variability, i.e. variability not explicitly resolved by the numerical model, will also be included in the database by adapting algorithms based on those used in similar terrestrial databases. Some preliminary results from the ongoing numerical experiments will be presented.

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