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Thermal structure of the atmospheric boundary layer on Mars based on Mini-TES observations

✍ Scribed by Zbigniew Sorbjan; Michael Wolff; Michael D. Smith

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
293 KB
Volume
135
Category
Article
ISSN
0035-9009

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Abstract

This paper presents and discusses the vertical profiles of the potential temperature in the Martian boundary layer. The profiles were remotely sensed from on‐board the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover during the first 702 sols of its operation in 2004–2005. The rover carried the Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini‐TES), which allowed it to retrieve temperature profiles up to a level 2 km above the ground surface. The data analysed here permit a reconstruction of the diurnal and seasonal structure of the lower part of the Martian convective boundary layer, an evaluation of the boundary layer depth, and a computation of the temperature heat flux. Copyright Β© 2009 Royal Meteorological Society

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