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The Mars Analysis Correction Data Assimilation (MACDA) Dataset V1.0
- Source :
- Geoscience Data Journal. 1:129-139
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2014.
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Abstract
- The Mars Analysis Correction Data Assimilation (MACDA) dataset version 1.0 contains the reanalysis of fundamental atmospheric and surface variables for the planet Mars covering a period of about three Martian years (a Martian year is about 1.88 terrestrial years). This has been produced by data assimilation of observations from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft during its science mapping phase (February 1999–August 2004). In particular, we have used retrieved thermal profiles and total dust optical depths from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) on board MGS. Data have been assimilated into a Mars global climate model (MGCM) using the Analysis Correction scheme developed at the UK Meteorological Office. The MGCM used is the UK spectral version of the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD, Paris, France) MGCM. MACDA is a joint project of the University of Oxford and The Open University in the UK.
- Subjects :
- Martian
Thermal Emission Spectrometer
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Meteorology
Mars Exploration Program
Atmosphere of Mars
Atmospheric sciences
01 natural sciences
Data assimilation
Geography
13. Climate action
General Circulation Model
0103 physical sciences
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Timekeeping on Mars
Mars global surveyor
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Details
- ISSN :
- 20496060
- Volume :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Geoscience Data Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....68e5c55e08645bc750f14148692929c5