Albedo control of seasonal south polar cap recession on Mars

• Published in: Icarus
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Subjects: Marssurface; Marspolar caps; Ice; Spectroscopy; Mathieu; Red Range; South Pole; Villanueva; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/43255; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.014

Abstract Over the last few decades, General Circulation Models (GCM) have been used to simulate the current Martian climate. The calibration of these GCMs with the current seasonal cycle is a crucial step in understanding the climate history of Mars. One of the main climatic signals currently used t...