Dataset of "Gravity Wave Activity in the Atmosphere of Mars During the 2018 Global Dust Storm: Simulations With a High-Resolution Model" (1/2)

This dataset contains the GrADS data of high-resolution Mars GCM results used for figures in the paper "Gravity Wave Activity in the Atmosphere of Mars During the 2018 Global Dust Storm: Simulations With a High-Resolution Model" by T. Kuroda, A.S. Medvedev and E. Yiğit.

Each file with the name starting 'data' contains two-dimensional (X: longitude, Y: latitude) data of surface pressure (Ps) (unit: hPa) and dust opacity in infrared wavelength (tau), and three-dimensional (X: longitude, Y: latitude, Z:sigma-level) data of temperature (T) (unit: K), zonal wind velocity (u) (unit: m/s), meridional wind velocity (v) (unit: m/s) and vertical wind velocity (w) (unit: m/s), in snapshots of every 1/6 Sol for the periods of 30 degrees in Ls per a file as described below. The dust scenario implemented for producing this dataset is taken from Montabone et al. (2020), which is based on the observed dust opacity in Mars Year 24 (MY34).

data180rdc-my34.tar.xz: for Ls=180-210 (49 Sols)

data210rdc-my34.tar.xz: for Ls=210-240 (47 Sols)

data240rdc-my34.tar.xz: for Ls=240-270 (46 Sols)

The .tar.xz files can be extracted in Linux with 'tar Jxvf' command, and .grd and .ctl files with the same stem are generated.

The file 'flux61ls5-my34.tar.xz' contains the three-dimensional fluxes and physical parameters calculated from the model output with the MY34 dust scenario. The contents are (T')^2, (u')^2, (v')^2, u'v', u'w', v'w' T(bar), u(bar), v(bar), squared Brunt-Vaisala frequency, and geopotential height. (bar) denotes the sum of the total wavenumber s=0-60 components, and the dash denotes the deviation from (bar), i.e. sum of the total wavenumber s=61-106 components. There are 36 time grids between Ls=182.5 and Ls=357.5 with the step of Ls=5 degrees. Kinetic and potential energies can be derived from these values using the formulae in the paper.

The file 'flux61ls5-lowdust.tar.xz' is the same as 'flux61ls5-my34.tar.xz', except the model output with the 'low-dust' scenario (Kuroda et al., 2019; Kuroda, 2019a, 2019b).

The file 'scripts.zip' contains the FORTRAN scripts to derive the fluxes and physical parameters equivalent to the file 'flux61ls5-my34.tar.xz' from the model outputs in this dataset and Kuroda (2020), i.e. data180rdc-my34.tar.xz, data210rdc-my34.tar.xz, data240rdc-my34.tar.xz, data270rdc-my34.tar.xz, data300rdc-my34.tar.xz and data330rdc-my34.tar.xz. Also, the fluxes and physical parameters equivalent to the file 'flux61ls5-lowdust.tar.xz' can be derived with those scripts from the model outputs data180rdc.tar.xz, data210rdc.tar.xz, data240rdc.tar.xz, data270rdc.tar.xz, data300rdc.tar.xz and data330rdc.tar.xz which are available in Kuroda (2019a, 2019b).