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Observational Analysis And Modeling Of The "B" Regional Dust Storm On Mars, Courtney Marylou Batterson
Observational Analysis And Modeling Of The "B" Regional Dust Storm On Mars, Courtney Marylou Batterson
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The annually-recurring, regional B storm on Mars occurs at the highest southernlatitudes in years lacking a global dust storm (GDS), and produces warm temperatures (> 200 K) at 50 Pa over the south pole. Observations of the B storm are limited due to the lack of in-situ data in the polar regions of Mars, and reproducing polar phenomena using traditional latitude-longitude grid models is difficult because of the increasingly small grid spacing at the poles. The development of the new NASA Ames Mars Global Climate Model (MGCM), which has a finite-volume dynamical core, a uniform cubed-sphere grid, and several of …