Thermal Emission Spectrometer results: Mars atmospheric thermal structure and aerosol distribution

By Michael D. Smith, J. Pearl, B. Conrath, Philip R. Christensen. 2001

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Mars Climate Sounder limb profile retrieval of atmospheric temperature, pressure, and dust and water ice opacity (2009, methodology): “... opacity level of 10 � 3 km � 1 is located around 80 Pa while the 10 � 4 km � 1 level is located around 30 Pa. Note that this falloff is significantly steeper than a homogeneously mixed profile, which would be represented by a diagonal line in the dust plots of Figure 25. High amounts of water ic”
Mars aerosol studies with the MGS TES emission phase function observations: Optical depths, particle sizes, and ice cloud types versus latitude and solar longitude (2003, methodology): “Parts of three Mars years have now been observed, in which accurate dust and water ice thermal infrared optical depths (9 and 12 mm) have been mapped in detail [Christensen et al., 2001; Smith et al., 2001; Pearl et al., 2001].”
Martian Clouds Observed by Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera from Ls 135 to 310 (2002, background): “The disappearance of the condensate clouds here is perhaps because dust warms the atmosphere [Smith et al., 2001] or dust particles serve as nucleation sites for ice removal [Rodin et al., 1999].”
Temperature inversions, thermal tides, and water ice clouds in the Martian tropics (2003, methodology): “…$100 m of the surface, where the pressure is $290 Pa. E01002 HINSON AND WILSON: TROPICAL TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS ON MARS the south, while the zonal winds in the north are comparatively weak [e.g., Smith et al., 2001a, Plate 5; Haberle et al., 1999, Figure 4; Hinson and Wilson, 2002, Figure 1] .”
Observations of the south seasonal cap of Mars during recession in 2004–2006 by the OMEGA visible/near‐infrared imaging spectrometer on board Mars Express (2007, methodology): “2 observed by TES [Smith et al., 2001] and OMEGA Figure 9.”
Metastability of liquid water on Mars (2001, background): “See Ta representing a clear sky (see Wolff et al. 1999, Leovy 2001, Smith et al. 2001), and the Sun angle is assumed to be 45◦ to the surface normal.”
Miniature thermal emission spectrometer for the Mars Exploration Rover (2002, methodology): “Mars Global Surveyor was launched in 1996, and the MGS TES has been returning excellent data since the spacecraft arrived at Mars in September, 1997 [Christensen et al., 2001a, 2001b; Bandfield et al., 2000; Bandfield, 2002; Smith et al., 2001a, 2001b; Kieffer et al., 2000; Kieffer and Titus, 2001].”
Assimilation of thermal emission spectrometer atmospheric data during the Mars Global Surveyor aerobraking period (2007, result): “…northern hemisphere is seen in the TES observations at this time and similar warmings are seen coincident with regional and global dust storms in the subsequent TES mapping phase data (Smith et al., 2001) and in earlier Viking IRTM observations (Martin and Kieffer, 1979; Jakosky and Martin, 1987).”
Three-dimensional modeling of ozone on Mars (2004, background): “Spectrometer (TES) [Smith et al., 2001] on board Mars Global Surveyor.”
Interannual variability in TES atmospheric observations of Mars during 1999–2003 (2004, background): “A low-latitude belt of water ice clouds circles the globe during this season, and water ice optical depth equals or exceeds dust optical depth on a planet-averaged basis ( Smith et al., 2001a, b).”
Apparent thermal inertia and the surface heterogeneity of Mars (2007, methodology): “Smith et al. (2001a) report an accuracy of about 1 m for individual MOLA observations, so the effects of elevation errors on those in pressure are negligible.”
Global thermal inertia and surface properties of Mars from the MGS mapping mission (2005, methodology): “…re ties s in e inhey bly, ut bove acf re to rtia me diswith eate and ethe ious sion en he bout aps mb ds in the of xrsis perller ners the dis the tian elevation, consistent with average TES spectral observa during much of the mapping mission(Mellon et al., 2000; Smith et al., 2001b; Smith, 2004).”