The Mars Regional Atmospheric Modeling System: Model Description and Selected Simulations

By S. Rafkin, R. Haberle, T. Michaels. 2001

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On the critical Richardson number in stably stratified turbulence (2007, background): “This mixing may be important in terrestrial, planetary and astrophysical systems, either on its own merit (Polzin and Ferrari, 2004; Rafkin et al., 2001; Izakov, 2003) or in combination with the effect of differential rotation (Maeder and Meynet, 1996; Ligniéres et al., 1999; Mathis et al., 2004).”
THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (2011, methodology): “…dynamics on Mars and allowed the study of the fine‐scale structure of the Martian daytime BL, dominated by convective processes (the “convective” BL): mixed‐layer growth, polygonal cells, thermal updrafts, and convective vortices [Rafkin et al., 2001; Toigo et al., 2003; Michaels and Rafkin, 2004].”
Dust devils on Earth and Mars (2006, methodology): “Mesoscale LES atmospheric models for Earth [Kanak et al., 2000; Kanak, 2005] and Mars [Rafkin et al., 2001; Michaels and Rafkin, 2001; Toigo and Richardson, 2002; Toigo et al., 2003] have begun to utilize resolutions sufficiently fine that they spontaneously generate convective vortices on similar…”
Selection of the Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site (2012, methodology): “Atmospheric predictions for MSL are derived from numerical models with roughly kilometer spatial resolution (Rafkin et al. 2001; Tyler et al. 2002), compared with tens or hundreds of kilometer resolution at the time of Viking or Mars Pathfinder.”