Participation in the Mars Data Analysis Program: Analysis of cloud forms in Viking and Mariner 9 images

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Apr 1985

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Final Technical Report, 1 Mar. 1983 - 28 Feb. 1985 Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. Center for Radiophysics and Space Research.

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Clouds, Image Processing, Infrared Spectra, Mariner 9 Space Probe, Mars (Planet), Planetary Meteorology, Viking Spacecraft, Data Processing, Meteorological Parameters, Space-Time Functions, Structural Properties (Geology), Surface Properties

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The first systematic account of the climate of Mars, based upon observations was produced. Cloud data were used to determine spatially and temporally varying near-surface wind direction, relative wind speed, static stability, and humidity conditions on a global scale. Existing models of meteorological processes were critically reexamined in light of the data, and more stringent constraints were set on global processes. Several discoveries were made, including the large extent and seasonal variability of the Mars equatorial Hadley cell, the failure of high latitude winds to reverse direction in early northern spring, the change in meridional wind component in southern midautum, and the almost constant cloud cover in the northern hemisphere, during spring and summer primarily by condensate clouds and in fall and winter by condensates and dust. The implications of these observations are discussed.

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