Enhanced Super‐Rotation Before and During the 2018 Martian Global Dust Storm

Abstract Super‐rotation affects—and is affected by—the distribution of dust in the martian atmosphere. We modeled this interaction during the 2018 global dust storm (GDS) of Mars Year 34 using data assimilation. Super‐rotation increased by a factor of two at the peak of the GDS, as compared to the s...

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Main Authors: Kylash Rajendran, Stephen R. Lewis, James A. Holmes, Paul M. Streeter, Anna A. Fedorova, Manish R. Patel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-08-01
Series:Geophysical Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094634