Mars Atmosphere-Ice Coupler MAIC-2

• Main Authors: Greve, Ralf, Grieger, Björn, Stenzel, Oliver J.
• Format: Software
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Mars; Planetary ice; Obliquity; Ice cap; Polar layered deposits; Ice age
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3700623; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3700623

Version 2 of the Mars Atmosphere-Ice Coupler MAIC-2, a simple, latitudinal (zonally averaged) model that consists of a set of parameterizations for the surface temperature, the atmospheric water transport and the surface mass balance (condensation minus evaporation) of water ice. It is driven directly by the orbital parameters obliquity, eccentricity and solar longitude of perihelion. Funding acknowledgements. DFG (German Science Foundation) Priority Programme "Mars and the Terrestrial Planets". Category-2 Research Grant of the Institute of Low Temperature Science (ILTS), Hokkaido University.