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MarsWRF Convective Vortex and Dust Devil Predictions for Gale Crater Over 3 Mars Years and Comparison With MSL-REMS Observations
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| dc.contributor.author | Newman, Claire E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Kahanpää, H. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Richardson, M. I. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Martínez, Germán M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vicente‐Retortillo, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lemmon, M. T. | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Mars | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-02T19:33:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-04-02T19:33:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-11-15 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Newman C.E., Richardson M.I., Kahanpaa H., Martinez G.M., Martinez G.M., Vicente-Retortillo A., and Lemmon M.T. 2020. "MarsWRF Convective Vortex and Dust Devil Predictions for Gale Crater Over 3 Mars Years and Comparison With MSL-REMS Observations". Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. | en |
| dc.identifier.other | https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006082 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11753/1478 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The daytime Martian atmosphere produces convective vortices called “dust devils” when they are dust‐filled. Vortices produce rapid pressure drops, which have been detected in Gale Crater by Mars Science Laboratory instruments. Observed vortex pressure drops are compared with vortex activity predicted using a numerical model, MarsWRF. Because vortices are far smaller than MarsWRF's grid spacing, the model can't predict them directly. Instead, the theory of Rennó et al. (1998) is used to calculate “dust devil activity” (DDA) – a measure of vortex activity – based on the large‐scale atmospheric state. | en |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | C. E. Newman, H. Kahanpää, M. I. Richardson, G. M. Martínez, A. Vicente‐Retortillo, M. T. Lemmon | |
| dc.format.extent | 27 pages | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | AGU | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | LPI contribution ; no. 2236 | |
| dc.relation.haspart | The MarsWRF model output and REMS vortex pressure drop analyses used in this study have been archived on Figshare.com (Newman et al., 2019) and are publicly and freely available at location (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4723361.v1). | |
| dc.subject | Dust devils | en |
| dc.subject | Mars (Planet) | en |
| dc.title | MarsWRF Convective Vortex and Dust Devil Predictions for Gale Crater Over 3 Mars Years and Comparison With MSL-REMS Observations | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| dc.rights.license | Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
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