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Holmes, James; Lewis, Stephen; Patel, Manish and Lefèvre, Franck
(2018).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.11.026
Abstract
We have assimilated for the first time SPICAM retrievals of total ozone into a Martian global circulation model to provide a global reanalysis of the ozone cycle. Disagreement in total ozone between model prediction and assimilation is observed between 45°S–10°S from LS=135–180° and at northern polar (60°N–90°N) latitudes during northern fall (LS=150–195°). Large percentage differences in total ozone at northern fall polar latitudes identified through the assimilation process are linked with excessive northward transport of water vapour west of Tharsis and over Arabia Terra. Modelling biases in water vapour can also explain the underestimation of total ozone between 45°S–10°S from LS=135–180°. Heterogeneous uptake of odd hydrogen radicals are unable to explain the outstanding underestimation of northern polar total ozone in late northern fall.
Assimilation of total ozone retrievals results in alterations of the modelled spatial distribution of ozone in the southern polar winter high altitude ozone layer. This illustrates the potential use of assimilation methods in constraining total ozone where SPICAM cannot observe, in a region where total ozone is especially important for potential investigations of the polar dynamics.
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- 52475
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 0019-1035
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Case for Support for Modelling and Data Assimilation Science Co-I on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. (SP-10-073-SL) ST/I003096/1 STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council) Astronomy and Planetary Sciences at the Open University ST/L000776/1 STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council) Support for Science Co-I's on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter Instruments. (SM-10-074-MP) ST/I003061/1 STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council) Modelling and retrieval of martian dust, ice and ozone from ExoMars NOMAD data ST/P001262/1 UKSA UK Space Agency UPWARDS UPWARDS-633127 Horizon 2020 - Keywords
- Martian atmosphere; Mars; data assimilation; atmospheres; atmospheric chemistry
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Physical Sciences
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
- Space
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- © 2017 The Authors
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- James Holmes