Baroclinic storms in the northern hemisphere of Mars

Details Baroclinic storms in the northern hemisphere of Mars Baroclinic storms in the northern hemisphere of Mars

Dec 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufm.p14a..04w&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #P14A-04

Physics

3346 Planetary Meteorology (5445, 5739), 0343 Planetary Atmospheres (5405, 5407, 5409, 5704, 5705, 5707)

Scientific paper

We study Martian baroclinic storms in the northern hemisphere using the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) wide angle global map swaths and Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) atmospheric temperature and optical depth data. This study covers the period from the beginning of the mapping phase to the end of the currently released data (from mid northern summer of the first year to mid northern winter of the third year). We present the spatial and temporal distribution of northern hemisphere fronts observed in MOC images, investigate their relationship to the atmospheric thermal state and dust loading, and study the detailed morphology and the thermal structure across the fronts using simultaneous MOC and TES data. We also present the distribution of southward moving dust storms that appear to be related to northern hemisphere baroclinic fronts, and assess their role in dust transport and global circulation.

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