TY - JOUR
T1 - Scientific innovations from the Mars aerosol optical depth based on satellite data with a temporal resolution of hours
AU - Gebhardt, Claus
AU - Abuelgasim, Abdelgadir
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Space Science and Technology Center at the United Arab Emirates University through the project Earth and Mars Atmosphere (grant no. 21R033-NSS Center 7-2017).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, The Author(s).
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), and possible future Mars stationary satellite(s) will provide innovative data products on the optical depth of dust and water ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere with a temporal resolution of hours. The science phase of TGO has begun in April 2018, and the EMM science operation is scheduled to start in 2021. In this work, the relationship between TGO, EMM, and precursor missions/instruments is analyzed based on the obtained data products. This is followed by discussing the foreseen innovation from the latter in the fields of Martian climatology and numerical weather forecasting. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
AB - The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), Emirates Mars Mission (EMM), and possible future Mars stationary satellite(s) will provide innovative data products on the optical depth of dust and water ice clouds in the Martian atmosphere with a temporal resolution of hours. The science phase of TGO has begun in April 2018, and the EMM science operation is scheduled to start in 2021. In this work, the relationship between TGO, EMM, and precursor missions/instruments is analyzed based on the obtained data products. This is followed by discussing the foreseen innovation from the latter in the fields of Martian climatology and numerical weather forecasting. [Figure not available: see fulltext.].
KW - Aerosol optical depth
KW - Data assimilation
KW - Dust
KW - Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)
KW - ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)
KW - Mars atmosphere
KW - Mars climatology
KW - Mars numerical weather forecasting
KW - Mars stationary satellites
KW - Water ice clouds
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U2 - 10.1186/s40645-019-0276-z
DO - 10.1186/s40645-019-0276-z
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85063903944
SN - 2197-4284
VL - 6
JO - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
JF - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
IS - 1
M1 - 31
ER -