Fully Interactive and Refined Resolution Simulations of the Martian Dust Cycle by the MarsWRF Model

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
• Main Authors: Gebhardt, C., Abuelgasim, A., Fonseca, R. M., Martin-Torres, J., Zorzano Mier, Maria-Paz
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Planetary Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: SDG 13 - Climate Action; Mars atmosphere; Mars climate modelling; dust storms; MarsWRF; Interactive dust; Model resolution; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; BOUNDARY-LAYER; CIRCULATION; ATMOSPHERIC-TEMPERATURE; STORMS; GALE CRATER; IMPACT; SURFACE; DYNAMICS; QB Astronomy; GE Environmental Sciences; Q Science; Forestry; Aquatic Science; Soil Science; Water Science and Technology; Earth-Surface Processes; Geochemistry and Petrology; Geophysics; Oceanography; Palaeontology; Ecology; Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous); Space and Planetary Science; Atmospheric Science; QB; GE; Q; sami
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/15116; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006253; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091630741&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Acknowledgments: First of all, our warmest thanks go to the PlanetWRF development team for providing the MarsWRF model free of charge to us and their proactive attitude in general. We thank Andy Heaps, National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK, for his helpful advice regarding the data visualization using cf‐Python. We would also like to thank Michael Mischna, Alexandre Kling, and the Associate Editor Claire Newman for their several detailed and insightful comments and suggestions that helped to significantly improve the quality of the paper. M. P. Z. acknowledges the partial support by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) project MDM‐2017‐0737 Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC‐INTA), Unidad de Excelencia María de Maeztu. Internally, we would like to express our greatest thanks to the High‐Performance Computing, Division of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University. Our particular thanks go to Asma AlNeyadi, Anil Thomas, and Nithin Damodaran for their intensive and continuous support in technically demanding questions. Also, we would like to thank the Digitization Unit, UAEU Libraries, for the digitization of auxiliary data on the observational record of the atmospheric T15 temperature and vertical weighting functions of Viking/IRTM. In addition, we thank UAEU Libraries for their assistance in making supporting data of this article available online. In particular, we are grateful to Digitization Technician Shireen M. Wolied, Fadl M. Musa/Digital Library Service, and Student Muhammad Abdul Rahim Sami Ullah. Funding Information: United Arab Emirates University (UAEU). Grant Number: 21R033‐NSS Center 7‐2017 Spanish State Research Agency (AEI). Grant Number: MDM‐2017‐0737 Peer reviewed