Comparison of PFS and TES observations of temperature and water vapor in the martian atmosphere

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The interval from Ls = 330° in Mars Year (MY) 26 until Ls = 84° in MY 27 has been used to compare and validate measurements from the Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) and the Mars Express Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS). We studied differences between atmospheric temperatures observed by the two instruments. The best agreement between atmospheric temperatures was found at 50 Pa between 40°S and 40°N latitude, where differences were within ±5 K. For other atmospheric levels, differences as large as ˜25 K were observed between the two instruments at some locations. The largest temperature differences occurred mainly over the Hellas Planitia, Argyre Planitia, Tharsis and Valles Marineris regions.On this basis we report on the variability of the martian atmosphere during the 5.5 martian years of Mars climatology obtained by combining the two data sets from TES and PFS. Atmospheric temperatures at 50 Pa responded to the global-scale dust storms of MY 25 and in MY 28 raising temperatures from ˜220 K to ˜250 K during the daytime. An atmospheric temperature of ˜140 K at 50 Pa was observed poleward of 70°N during northern winter and poleward of 60°S during southern winter each year in both the PFS and TES results. Water vapor observed by the two spectrometers showed consistent seasonal and latitudinal variations.

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