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1. Mars-solar wind interaction: LatHyS, an improved parallel 3-D multispecies hybrid model

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Modolo, Ronan, Hess, Sebastien, Mancini, Marco, Leblanc, François, Chaufray, Jean-Yves, Brain, David, Leclercq, Ludivine, Esteban Hernandez, Rosa, Chanteur, Gérard, Weill, Philippe, González-Galindo, Francisco, Forget, François, Yagi, Manabu, Mazelle, Christian, HELIOS - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab [Toulouse], ONERA, Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH (UMR_8102)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder] (LASP), University of Colorado [Boulder], Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Tohoku University [Sendai], Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), International Space Science Institute (ISSI), European Commission, ANR-09-BLAN-0223,HELIOSARES,Relation Soleil ? Mars: description et analyse des échanges présents et passés entre magnétosphère et atmosphère(2009), European Project: 262863,EC:FP7:SPA,FP7-SPACE-2010-1,IMPEX(2011), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), HEPPI - LATMOS, PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PSL Research University (PSL)-PSL Research University (PSL)-École polytechnique (X)-Sorbonne Universités-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Spain] (CSIC), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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[SDU.ASTR.SR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR], Physics::Space Physics, magnetosphere, interaction, Mars, plasma, Simulation
Abstract

International audience In order to better represent Mars-Solar wind interaction, we present an unprecedented model achieving spatial resolution down to 50 km, a so far unexplored resolution for global kinetic models of the Martian ionized environment. Such resolution approaches the ionospheric plasma scale height. In practice, the model is derived from a first version described in Modolo et al. [2005]. An important effort of parallelization has been conducted and is presented here. A better description of the ionosphere was also implemented including ionospheric chemistry, electrical conductivities and a drag force modelling the ion-neutral collisions in the ionosphere. This new version of the code, named LatHyS (Latmos Hybrid Simulation), is here used to characterize the impact of various spatial resolutions on simulation results. In addition, and following a global model challenge effort [Brain et al., 2010], we present the results of simulation run for three cases which allows addressing the effect of the supra-thermal corona and of the solar EUV activity on the magnetospheric plasma boundaries and on the global escape. Simulation results showed that global patterns are relatively similar for the different spatial resolution runs but finest grid runs provide a better representation of the ionosphere and display more details of the planetary plasma dynamic. Simulation results suggest that a significant fraction of escaping O+ ions is originated from below 1200 km altitude.

Published
2016

2. The Martian ionosphere: comparison of a global climate model with MARSIS data

Author

González-Galindo, Francisco, Nemec, F., Lopez-Valverde, Miguel, Chaufray, Jean-Yves, Forget, Francois, Morgan, D.D., Diéval, C., Gurnett, D. A., Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics [Praha/Prague], Charles University [Prague] (CU), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Iowa City], University of Iowa [Iowa City], Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), and Cardon, Catherine

Subjects
[SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [SDU.ASTR.EP] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]
Abstract

International audience; We present here the comparison of the electron den- sity profiles predicted by a 3D global climate model (GCM), the Mars GCM developed at the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD-MGCM) [4], with the measurements from the instrument MARSIS on board Mars Express [5]. The observations were ob- tained during 5 Martian Years (MY), from MY27 to MY31 (mid 2005-end of 2013). The model was run using the observed day-to-day variability of the UV solar flux and of the dust load during that period. We focus the comparison on two parameters: the electron density at the main peak, and the altitude of the peak. Special attention will be paid to the variability of these two parameters with different geophysical parameters (latitude, SZA, ...), which can provide interesting in- formation about the neutral upper atmosphere of Mars and its interaction with the UV solar radiation.

Published
2015

3. Gravity waves and the exotic meteorology of Mars

Author

Spiga, Aymeric, González-Galindo, Francisco, Altieri, Francesca, Clancy, Robert Todd, Lopez-Valverde, Miguel, Forget, François, Määttänen, Anni, Montmessin, Franck, Madeleine, Jean-Baptiste, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF (IAPS), Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Space Science Institute [Boulder] (SSI), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Cardon, Catherine, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)

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[PHYS.ASTR.EP] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [PHYS.ASTR.EP]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Physics::Space Physics, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [SDU.ASTR.EP] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Physics::Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Physics::Geophysics
Abstract

As is the case on Earth, atmospheric gravity waves are ubiquitous and play a key role on Mars. We recently obtained new results on Martian gravity waves by combining the latest remote sensing observations with Martian mesoscale modeling. Many independent measurements have shown that extremely low temperatures ("cold pockets") are found in the Martian mesosphere. Recent observational achievements also hint at such cold pockets by revealing mesospheric clouds formed through the condensation of CO2, the major component of the Martian atmosphere. We show that, in combination with large-scale thermal tides, mesoscale gravity waves are crucial for creating mesospheric cold pockets propitious to CO2 condensation. Most of regions/seasons featuring mesospheric CO2 clouds are characterized by atmospheric conditions favorable to the upward propagation of gravity waves from tropospheric sources. How gravity waves contribute to form CO2 clouds is reminiscent of their role in the formation of polar stratospheric clouds with relatively high optical depths on Earth. We also report how airglow imagery is a powerful method to detect and study the propagation of Martian gravity waves. This technique has already proved powerful in the case of terrestrial gravity waves. Wave patterns in the southern polar region of Mars were found in O2 dayglow maps obtained at 1.27 μm with the imaging spectrometer OMEGA on board Mars Express. We show through mesoscale modeling that the propagation of gravity waves in the Martian troposphere could explain these patterns. Model predictions match the intensity and spatial variability of dayglow fluctuations observed in the OMEGA maps. We finally propose to make gravity wave activity a plausible explanation for the "cloud trails" recently discovered by the high-resolution color imager MARCI on board Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The name of those clouds reflect their extended longitudinal dimensions, which develop within less than two hours. Cloud trails appear at altitudes 40 - 50 km, only above very specific regions, at the warmest season (perihelion) and local time (early afternoon). Those characteristics appear paradoxical, given atmospheric temperatures at which Martian water ice clouds usually form. We show however that a possible explanation involves gravity waves emitted by turbulent convection in the highly unstable Martian boundary layer which vertical extent could reach one atmospheric scale height. Further studies are needed on convectively-generated gravity waves on Mars, to complement existing work on the orographic source. In addition to boundary layer convection, recent modeling shows indeed that dust-induced deep convection within Martian dust storms could trigger gravity waves.

Published
2013

4. New nitric oxide (NO) nightglow measurements with SPICAM/MEx as a tracer of Mars upper atmosphere circulation and comparison with LMD/GCM model prediction: Evidence for asymmetric hemispheres

Author

Gagné, Marie-Ève, Bertaux, Jean-Loup, González-Galindo, Francisco, Melo, Stella M. L., Montmessin, Franck, Strong, Kimberly, Department of Physics [Toronto], University of Toronto, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)

Subjects
observations, [PHYS.ASTR.EP]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Mars, modeling, airglow, NO, SPICAM
Abstract

International audience; We report observations of NO nightglow with the SPICAM experiment on board the Mars Express (MEx) spacecraft. NO molecules emit a UV photon when N and O atoms (produced at high altitude in the thermosphere) recombine. Therefore, this emission is a tracer of the atmospheric dynamics in the in the lower thermosphere where O and N atoms are produced, and below, in the altitude region 50-100 km where the emission is detected. A new retrieval method has been developed to analyse the measurements from this instrument in the stellar occultation mode without slit, and retrieve the absolute brightness of the emission. We present the results from the processing of more than 2000 orbits, providing the first global latitude-season distribution of the emission, established over three Martian years. The results are globally consistent with previously available measurements of dedicated limb nightglow obtained during the first Martian year of MEx (MY27). We compared the ensemble of both data sets withthe predictions of the LMD-MGCM, with the addition of the full chemistry of N atoms. We find an overall agreement between the observed and modelled airglow intensities, but discrepancies are also found. The frequency and magnitude of the NO airglowobservations show important asymmetries between the Northern and the Southern hemispheres. There is no detection of emission near the poles during equinox conditions, while the model predicts that it should be most intense because of a circulation with two descending branches at the poles.

Published
2013

5. Modelled O2 airglow distributions in the Martian atmosphere

Author

Gagné, Marie-Ève, Melo, Stella, Lefèvre, Franck, González-Galindo, Francisco, Strong, Kimberly, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Department of Physics [Toronto], University of Toronto, PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC)

Subjects
Oxygen, Airglow, Atmosphere, Photochemistry, [PHYS.ASTR.EP]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Mars, Modelling
Abstract

International audience; We use a three-dimensional atmospheric model to study the airglow emissions from molecular oxygen in the Martian atmosphere. We estimate the O2 Herzberg I and II, the Chamberlain, and the Infrared Atmospheric band emissions from different sets of kinetic parameters available in the literature. As expected, the enhanced production of atomic oxygen during daytime leads to stronger emissions at 12 hour local time than at 00 hour local time. Nevertheless, at night, the strongest emissions are found in the subtropics and around the terminator where the photochemistry of atomic oxygen is more active. Among the simulated emissions, we find that the Infrared Atmospheric emission is the most intense, as expected, and has maximum intensity reaching a few megarayleighs over the poles during the equinoctial seasons, and an average intensity over the equatorial latitudes of 50 kilorayleighs. We investigate the impact of different levels of water and dust content on airglow and we observe that the airglow structure is modulated by variations in the background atmospheric conditions. Moreover, comparisons of the emission with observations from instruments on board Mars orbiters and with ground-based measurements from Earth allow us to validate the consistency of our airglow model. Finally, we observe that the emission profiles from all band systems show structures; a double-layer profile is very frequent, and is representative of the vertical distribution of the current measurements of O2 nightglow. This paper emphasizes the advantage of using three-dimensional global circulation models for the diagnostic of O2 photochemistry in CO2-dominated atmospheres.

Published
2012

6. Martian mesospheric CO2 clouds: Mars Express OMEGA and HRSC data, the LMD-MGCM and possibility for mesospheric convection

Author

Määttänen, Anni, Montmessin, Franck, Gondet, Brigitte, Hoffmann, Harald, Scholten, Frank, González-Galindo, Francisco, Spiga, Aymeric, Forget, Francois, Hauber, Ernst, Neukum, Gerhard, Bertaux, Jean-Loup, PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), DLR Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Earth Sciences [Berlin], Free University of Berlin (FU), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-École polytechnique (X)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), and Cardon, Catherine

Subjects
[PHYS.ASTR.EP] Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [PHYS.ASTR.EP]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], [SDU.ASTR.EP] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract

International audience

Published
2010

7. Martian mesospheric CO2 clouds: OMEGA and HRSC data, the LMD-MGCM and possibility for mesospheric convection

Author

Määttänen, Anni, Montmessin, Franck, Gondet, Brigitte, Hoffmann, Harald, Scholten, Frank, González-Galindo, Francisco, Spiga, Aymeric, PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), German Aerospace Center (DLR), Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539) (LMD), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-École polytechnique (X)-École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Department of Physics and Astronomy [Milton Keynes], and The Open University [Milton Keynes] (OU)

Subjects
[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]
Abstract

International audience; We will present 3 Martian years (Mars Years 27-29) of high-altitude CO2 cloud data from MEx/OMEGA and selected results from Mex/HRSC. OMEGA observed these clouds on 51 and HRSC in 28 orbits with 11 simultaneous observations. The 3-year dataset shows that the cloud activity starts latest at Ls=0° (with the earliest occurrence observed at the end of MY 29 at Ls=330°), and continues until Ls=60° when ceasing for a period before the summer solstice. The activity starts again at or after Ls=90°, and after Ls=120° the equatorial clouds are nearly absent in our dataset. Three cases of midlatitude autumn/winter clouds have been observed: one in the northern hemisphere and two in the southern. The spatial distribution of the clouds is limited in a latitude range of 20°S-20°N (with the exceptions of the midlatitude clouds) and a longitude range -120 - 30°E (3 exceptions). The HRSC stereo observations enable accurate cloud altitude measurements, yielding values between 60 and 85 km (+/-2 km) for the near-equatorial clouds. The clouds speeds, related to the prevailing east-west winds, range from 15 to 107 m/s (+/-15 m/s). Two cloud shadow observations show that cloud opacities can go up to τ=0.6 and the cloud particle effective radii are mainly in the range reff=1-2 μm. A comparison with the LMD Mars Global Climate Model shows a good agreement between the model-predicted winds and those observed by the HRSC. The LMD-MGCM predicts a strong diurnal variation of temperature at the cloud observation altitudes due to the propagation of the diurnal thermal tide. The coldest temperatures in the near-equator cloud altitude range (60-85 km) are observed towards the end of the afternoon, whereas the warmest temperatures are found in the early morning hours. Most of the observed clouds are cirrus-type, filamented clouds, but in some OMEGA observations the clouds exhibit round, clumpy structures that have been suggested to be of convective origin. We assess the plausibility of the hypothesis of mesospheric convection in light of the observations and theoretical Convective Available Potential Energy calculations. Estimates of convective potential and vertical velocities based on observed cloud properties suggest that the convective clouds could most likely be clusters of smaller scale convective updrafts. To attain the estimated values of CAPE and vertical velocity, most probably only moderate deviations from saturation are required. Based on nucleation modeling, such deviations may imply cloud formation via heterogeneous nucleation onto small condensation nuclei.

Published
2010

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