Mean thermal and albedo behavior of the Mars surface and atmosphere over a Martian year

Details Mean thermal and albedo behavior of the Mars surface and atmosphere over a Martian year Mean thermal and albedo behavior of the Mars surface and atmosphere over a Martian year

Feb 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981icar...45..427m&link_type=abstract

Icarus, vol. 45, Feb. 1981, p. 427-446.

Computer Science

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Albedo, Annual Variations, Atmospheric Temperature, Mars Atmosphere, Mars Surface, Surface Temperature, Dust Storms, Infrared Scanners, Mariner 9 Space Probe, Mars Photographs, Meteorology, Thermal Environments, Thermal Mapping, Wavelengths, Longitude, Mars, Surface, Albedo, Thermal Properties, Irtm, Viking Infrared Thermal Mapper, Brightness Temperature, Mapping, Maps, Parameters, Latitude, Seasons, Diurnal Variations, Emissions, Insolation, Dust, Temperatures, Dust Storms, Mariner 9, Opacity, Data

Scientific paper

A Mars average data set (MADS) has been constructed from thermal and albedo measurements of the Viking Infrared Thermal Mapper; by merging information from all longitudes, and ensuring reasonably complete longitudinal sampling, a representation of mean Mars behavior is obtained. Brightness temperatures at 7, 9, 11, 15, and 20 microns and albedo information in the band 0.3-3.0 microns have been binned using 2 deg latitude strips, 24 times of day, 3 emission angle intervals, and 23 nonoverlapping solar longitude periods covering 1.43 Mars years starting at a solar longitude of 84 deg. The MADS is ideally suited to parametric study of latitudinal, diurnal, angular, and seasonal dependences. Data are presented for surface thermal and albedo behavior in clear and dusty atmospheric conditions; the thermal response of the atmospheric temperature to a major dust storm is found to be consistent with Mariner 9 data from the 1971 storm. Examples of use of the MADS, which is available through the Mars Consortium, indicate how averaged data reveal specific surface and atmospheric phenomena.

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