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Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufm.p51e..09b&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #P51E-09
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[3346] Atmospheric Processes / Planetary Meteorology, [3389] Atmospheric Processes / Tides And Planetary Waves, [5405] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Atmospheres, [5445] Planetary Sciences: Solid Surface Planets / Meteorology
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We examine the 2 martian years worth of MRO MCS data to reveal the forced (stationary wave and thermal tides) and traveling waves in the martian atmosphere. This analysis is based on the same tools used in Banfield et al 2003, & 2004 in the analysis of MGS TES nadir data and Banfield et al (submitted 2010) MGS TES limb retrievals. In particular, we will characterize interannual variation in the MRO MCS data itself between its two years, as well as differences where spatial coverage is shared with MGS TES results from previous years. We will also identify new details of the atmospheric behavior with the extended vertical coverage and better vertical resolution afforded by the dedicated limb-scanning nature of MRO MCS. Among other time-varying phenomena in the martian atmosphere, we will present the MRO MCS observations of long period traveling waves (~30 sols) in the northern winter hemisphere and at high altitude into the tropics where it was only poorly observed by MGS TES. We will compare the MRO MCS results with MGS TES results, as well as with GCM results where appropriate to extract as complete an understanding of the phenomena revealed as possible.
Banfield Donald J.
Kass David
Kleinboehl Armin
Schofield John T.
Wilson Raymond
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