The Mars Climate Database (MCD version 5.2)

E. Millour (1) , Francois Forget (1) , Aymeric Spiga (1) , T. Navarro (1) , Jean-Baptiste Madeleine (1) , Luca Montabone (2, 1) , Alizée Pottier (3, 1) , Franck Lefèvre (3) , Franck Montmessin (3) , Jean-Yves Chaufray (3) , M. A. Lopez-Valverde (4) , Francisco Gonzalez-Galindo (4) , Stephen R. Lewis (5) , P.L. Read (6) , Jean-Paul Huot (7) , M.-C. Desjean (8)

1 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
2 SSI - Space Science Institute [Boulder]
3 PLANETO - LATMOS
4 IAA - Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
5 School of Physical Sciences [Milton Keynes]
6 AOPP - Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics [Oxford]
7 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
8 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]

The Mars Climate Database (MCD) is a database of meteorological fields derived from General Circulation Model (GCM) numerical simulations of the Martian atmosphere and validated using available observational data. The MCD includes complementary post-processing schemes such as high spatial resolution interpolation of environmental data and means of reconstructing the variability thereof. We have just completed (March 2015) the generation of a new version of the MCD, MCD version 5.2.

Domains: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]

E. Millour, Francois Forget, Aymeric Spiga, T. Navarro, Jean-Baptiste Madeleine, et al.. The Mars Climate Database (MCD version 5.2). European Planetary Science Congress 2015, Sep 2015, Nantes, France. 10, pp.EPSC2015-438, 2015. ⟨insu-01211134⟩