Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000kfnt...16..437d&link_type=abstract
Kinematika i Fizika Nebesnykh Tel, vol. 16, no. 5, p. 437-453
Physics
Scientific paper
Our examination of the methods and results of available estimates of the optical characteristics of atmospheric aerosols allows us to draw the following conclusions. 1. When the morning and evening hazes are ignored in the analyses of the solar brightness weakening data obtained from the Martian surface, the solar intensity at the upper boundary of the atmosphere as well as its optical thickness may be significantly overestimated. For example, at the Viking-1 lander site the intensity may be overestimated by a factor of 1.7 and τ0 by a factor of 0.35. When these data are used in the analysies of the azimuthal dependence of the Martian sky brightness and when the presence of hazes is ignored, aerosol size and imaginary part of the refractive index are also overestimated. At wavelenghts shorter than 500 nm the spectral values of the imaginary part of the refractive index ni, show the best agreement with those obtained in laboratory for basalts, but for longer wavelengths they are much lower. 3. At the 1971 dust storm maximum the mean geometrical radius r0 of the particles proved to be in the range 3.5-5.7 μm with the dispersion σ2 = 0.2. 4. In October-November τ0 >15, whereas for the "clear" atmosphere τ0 < 0.02 at λ = 500 nm. 5. The turbulent diffusion coefficient at the mean level of the surface layer proved to be not lower than 3\cdot107 cm2/s in October-November 1971.
Dlugach Zh. M.
Morozhenko Olexandr V.
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