Brightness Temperature Variances from On-Planet Views in the A1–A3 Channels by the Mars Climate Sounder

Heavens, Nicholas (2022), “Brightness Temperature Variances from On-Planet Views in the A1–A3 Channels by the Mars Climate Sounder”, Zenodo, V1, doi: 10.5281

Title: Brightness Temperature Variances from On-Planet Views in the A1–A3 Channels by the Mars Climate Sounder

Author: Nicholas G. Heavens, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, USA and London, UK (nheavens@spacescience.org)

Date: 25 March 2022  

Overview: This dataset contains an improvement and extension of significant data analysis products related to: 

Heavens, N.G., A. Pankine, J.M. Battalio, C. Wright, D.M. Kass, A. Kleinböhl, S. Piqueux, J.T. Schofield, 2022, Mars Climate Sounder Observations of Gravity-Wave Activity throughout Mars' Lower Atmosphere, Plan. Sci. J., 3, 57, doi: 10.3847/PSJ/ac51ce. 

These fall into three broad categories: diagnoses of detrended brightness temperature variance (GW) at 595–615 cm-1 (A1), 615–645 cm-1 (A2), and 635-665 cm-1 (A3) in individual views in the nadir or off-nadir by Mars Climate Sounder on board Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter; averages and other statistics of those diagnoses in space and time; and estimated gravity wave visibility functions for nadir, off-nadir, and nadir views with baselines like off-nadir views. This document presumes the manuscript is available to the dataset user.

The purpose of archiving this dataset is to allow for comparison with a forthcoming analysis of gravity wave activity in limb observations by Mars Climate Sounder.

The original dataset was published as:

Heavens, Nicholas (2022), “Brightness Temperature Variances from On-Planet Views in the A1–A3 Channels by the Mars Climate Sounder”, Mendeley Data, V2, doi: 10.17632/5k6nybdy92.2

The extension of the dataset consists of extension of the analysis time period to the end of January 2022 (MY 36, Ls=166.87).

The improvement consists of a flag to indicate when an on-planet observations is likely to intersect a loop structure observed in the limb, and thus be contaminated by a high altitude cloud, which results in overestimate of gravity wave activity in the tropics at night during the clear season. Averages are now included that filter out flagged observations, as well as the original averages that include the flagged observations. 

If you are using this dataset and are feeling confused or wish there were some additional information from the article in this dataset, please contact me. A complete accounts of the contents and a restatement of this description is included as MCS_OP_A13_GW_Analysis_Dataset_Documentation.pdf.

Acknowledgments: The archiving of this dataset is supported by NASA’s Mars Data Analysis Program (80NSSC19K1215).