Vertical Profiles Of Temperature And Dust Derived From Mars Climate Sounder

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Oct 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007dps....39.4002t&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #40.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.492

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Mars Climate Sounder (MCS) on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) primarily operates as a limb sounding infrared radiometer. The small field of view and limb scanning mode allow retrieval of temperature and dust properties from the surface up to approximately 80km with 5km vertical resolution. The polar orbit of MRO gives coverage of all latitudes at 3pm and 3am local time. The ability of MCS to sounds these altitudes at high spatial and temporal resolution gives a unique dataset with which to test our understanding of the Martian atmosphere. It also complements and extends upon previous climatalogical datasets (for example TES).
Measured mid-infrared radiances from MCS were analysed using the correlated-k approximation with Oxford's NEMESIS retrieval software. The correlated-k approximation was compared with a line-by-line model to confirm its accuracy under Martian atmospheric conditions. Dust properties were taken from analysis of TES data by Wolff and Clancy (2003).
We present profiles of temperature and dust for data covering September to December 2006. During this period Mars' north pole was experiencing summer and the south pole was in winter. Preliminary results show that high altitude warming over the southern winter pole is greater than that predicted by models. Our results will be compared to numerical models of the Martian atmosphere and the implications discussed.

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