Supplementary data for "Atmospheric dynamics of first steps toward terraforming Mars", by Richardson et al.

Supplementary data for "Atmospheric dynamics of first steps toward terraforming Mars", by Richardson et al.

Mars-configured planetWRF (MarsWRF) output are included for:

1. the steady-state reference run (wrfout_ref.nc),
2. the steady-state Al n60 equatorial release case (wrfout_equat_al_n60.nc); and,
3. the steady-state graphene n15 equatorial release case (wrfout_equat_c_n15.nc).

Output are at for four times per Sol, for each of the 669 Sols in the model year.

Data is in NetCDF format. It can be processed with NCO/NCKS tools, viewed with NcView, and libraries to access NetCDF files are widely available for Python, Fortran, and other languages. The header, variables list, and attributes can be seen by running "ncdump -h" on the files (after ungzipping them). Note the NetCDF files include many of the MarsWRF model constants and parameters as NetCDF global attributes. The files were compressed with "gzip <file>" and should be uncompressed using "gunzip <file>.gz". Because of difficulties uploading multi-GB files, each have been split into four smaller files on the basis of output timestep (669 records, or one quarter of the year, each). They can be reassembled using "ncrcat" after they have been uncompressed.

planetWRF namelist.input files for each run (readable in any text editor) are included along with a restart file common to all runs in this experiment set (NetCDF file: wrfrst...). For reference, the simulations were conducted with code at git commit 855feebb85

Text files are included containing the radiative properties for each manufactured particle type used in the simulations.

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