Midwinter suppression of baroclinic storm activity on Mars: observations and models

• Main Authors: Read, P. L., Montabone, L., Mulholland, D. P., Lewis, S. R., Cantor, B., Wilson, R. J.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Hollingsworth; Midwinter; Pacific; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/30843/; https://oro.open.ac.uk/30843/1/read_paris2011.pdf; http://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/paris2011/abstracts/read_paris2011

Baroclinic instability and intense traveling wave activity on Mars is well known to occur in “storm zones” (Hollingsworth et al. 1996) close to the edge of the advancing or retreating polar ice cap. Such activity usually sets in during Martian fall and continues until the onset of the summer season...