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Article Dans Une Revue Atmospheric Measurement Techniques Année : 2017

Evidence of a significant rotational non-LTE effect in the CO2 4.3 µm PFS-MEX limb spectra

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Since January 2004, the planetary Fourier spectrometer (PFS) on board the Mars Express satellite has been recording near-infrared limb spectra of high quality up to the tangent altitudes ≈ 150 km, with potential information on density and thermal structure of the upper Martian atmosphere. We present first results of our modeling of the PFS short wavelength channel (SWC) daytime limb spectra for the altitude region above 90 km. We applied a ro-vibrational non-LTE model based on the stellar astrophysics technique of accelerated lambda iteration (ALI) to solve the multi-species and multi-level CO2 problem in the Martian atmosphere. We show that the long-standing discrepancy between observed and calculated spectra in the cores and wings of 4.3 µm region is explained by the non-thermal rotational distribution of molecules in the upper vibrational states 10011 and 10012 of the CO2 main isotope second hot (SH) bands above 90 km altitude. The redistribution of SH band intensities from band branch cores into their wings is caused (a) by intensive production of the CO2 molecules in rotational states with j > 30 due to the absorption of solar radiation in optically thin wings of 2.7 µm bands and (b) by a short radiative lifetime of excited molecules, which is insufficient at altitudes above 90 km for collisions to maintain rotation of excited molecules thermalized. Implications for developing operational algorithms for massive processing of PFS and other instrument limb observations are discussed.
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Alexander A. Kutepov, Ladislav Rezac, Artem G. Feofilov. Evidence of a significant rotational non-LTE effect in the CO2 4.3 µm PFS-MEX limb spectra. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2017, 10, pp.265-271. ⟨10.5194/amt-10-265-2017⟩. ⟨insu-03727091⟩
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