Vertical profiles of Mars 1.27 μm O<sub>2</sub> dayglow from MRO CRISM limb Spectra: Seasonal/global behaviors, comparisons to LMDGCM simulations, and a global definition for Mars water vapor profiles - INSU - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers Accéder directement au contenu
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Vertical profiles of Mars 1.27 μm O2 dayglow from MRO CRISM limb Spectra: Seasonal/global behaviors, comparisons to LMDGCM simulations, and a global definition for Mars water vapor profiles

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Since July of 2009, The Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectral Mapper (CRISM) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has periodically obtained pole-to-pole observations (i.e., full MRO orbits) of limb scanned visible/near IR spectra (λ=0.4-4.0 μm, △λ ∼ 10 nm- Murchie et al., 2007). These CRISM limb observations support the first seasonally and spatially extensive set of Mars 1.27 μm O2(1g)dayglow profile retrievals (∼ 1100) over ≥ 8 to 80 km altitudes. Their comparison to Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) global climate model (GCM) simulated O2(1g)volume emission rate (VER) profiles, as a function of altitude, latitude, and season (solar longitude, Ls), supports several key conclusions regarding Mars atmospheric water vapor (which is derived from O2(1g)emission rates), Mars O3, and the collisional de-excitation of O2(1g)in the Mars CO2 atmosphere. Current (Navarro et al., 2014) LMDGCM simulations of Mars atmospheric water vapor fall 2-3 times below CRISM derived water vapor abundances at 20-40 km altitudes over low-to-mid latitudes in northern spring (Ls=30-60°), and northern mid-to-high latitudes over northern summer (Ls=60-140°). In contrast, LMDGCM simulated water vapor is 2-5 times greater than CRISM derived values at all latitudes and seasons above 40 km, within the aphelion cloud belt (ACB), and over high-southern to mid-northern latitudes in southern summer (Ls=190-340°) at 15-35 km altitudes. Overall, the solstitial summer-to-winter hemisphere gradients in water vapor are reversed between the LMDGCM modeled versus the CRISM derived water vapor abundances above 10-30 km altitudes. LMDGCM-CRISM differences in water vapor profiles correlate with LMDGCM-CRISM differences in cloud mixing profiles; and likely reflect limitations in simulating cloud microphysics and radiative forcing, both of which restrict meridional transport of water from summer-to-winter hemispheres on Mars (Clancy et al., 1996; Montmessin et al., 2004; Steele et al., 2014; Navarro et al., 2014) and depend on uncertain cloud microphysical properties (Navarro et al., 2014). The derived low-to-mid latitude changes in Mars water vapor vertical distributions should reduce current model-data disagreements in column O3 and H2O2 abundances over low-to-mid latitudes (e.g., within the ACB; Lefèvre et al., 2008; Encrenaz et al., 2015; Clancy et al., 2016). Lastly, the global/seasonal average comparison of CRISM and LMDGCM O2(1g)VER below 20 km altitudes indicates a factor of ∼ 3 times lower value (0.25 x 10−20 cm3sec−1) for the CO2 collisional de-excitation rate coefficient of O2(1g)than derived recently by Guslyakova et al. (2016).
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insu-01512291 , version 1 (22-04-2017)

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R. Todd Clancy, Michael D. Smith, Franck Lefèvre, Timothy H. Mcconnochie, Brad J. Sandor, et al.. Vertical profiles of Mars 1.27 μm O2 dayglow from MRO CRISM limb Spectra: Seasonal/global behaviors, comparisons to LMDGCM simulations, and a global definition for Mars water vapor profiles. Icarus, 2017, 293, pp.132-156. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2017.04.011⟩. ⟨insu-01512291⟩
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