Mars water vapor abundance from SPICAM IR spectrometer: Seasonal and geographic distributions
| Autor: | Anna Fedorova, Séverine Perrier, Jean-Loup Bertaux, A. V. Kiselev, Alexander Rodin, Oleg Korablev |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences [Moscow] (RAS), Service d'aéronomie (SA), 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), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology [Moscow] (MIPT) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Soil Science Aquatic Science Oceanography 01 natural sciences Atmosphere Geochemistry and Petrology 0103 physical sciences Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Nadir 010303 astronomy & astrophysics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology Remote sensing [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-AO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics [physics.ao-ph] Ecology Spectrometer Paleontology Forestry Spectral bands Mars Exploration Program Geophysics 13. Climate action Space and Planetary Science Environmental science Polar Timekeeping on Mars Water vapor |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, Wiley-Blackwell, 2006, 111, pp.E09S08. ⟨10.1029/2006JE002695⟩ Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 2006, 111, pp.E09S08. ⟨10.1029/2006JE002695⟩ |
| ISSN: | 2169-9097 2169-9100 |
| DOI: | 10.1029/2006JE002695⟩ |
| Popis: | Received 2 February 2006; revised 7 July 2006; accepted 11 July 2006; published 26 September 2006. [1] The near-IR channel of SPICAM experiment on Mars Express spacecraft is a 800-g acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF)–based spectrometer operating in the spectral range of 1–1.7 mm with resolving power of � 2000. It was put aboard as an auxiliary channel dedicated to nadir H2O measurements in the 1.37-mm spectral band. This primary scientific goal of the experiment is achieved though successful water vapor retrievals, resulting in spatial and seasonal distributions of H2O. We present the results of H2O retrieval from January 2004 (Ls = 330� ) to December 2005 (Ls = 340� ), covering the entire Martian year. The seasonal trend of water vapor obtained by SPICAM IR is consistent with TES results and reveals disagreement with MAWD results related to south pole maximum. The main feature of SPICAM measurements is globally smaller water vapor abundance for all seasons and locations including polar regions, as compared to other data. The maximum abundance is 50–55 precipitable microns at the north pole and 13–16 precipitable microns (pr mm) at the south pole. The northern tropical maximum amounts to 12–15 pr mm. Possible reasons for the disagreements are discussed. |
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