期刊
EARTH AND PLANETARY PHYSICS
卷 4, 期 6, 页码 550-564出版社
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.26464/epp2020062
关键词
Martian atmosphere; thermal tides; water vapor; dust storms; water escape
资金
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB41000000]
- China National Space Administration [D020105]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41525015, 41774186, 41674149, 41974175]
- National Science Foundation [AST1740921]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment
- Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation [2019A1515110815]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Lunar and Deep Space Exploration [LDSE201803]
In recent studies of the Martian atmosphere, strong diurnal variation in the dust was discovered in the southern hemisphere during major dust storms, which provides strong evidence that the commonly recognized meridional transport process is driven by thermal tides. This process, when coupled with deep convection, could be an important part of the short-term atmospheric dynamics of water escape. However, the potential of this process to alter the horizontal distribution of moist air has not been systematically investigated. In this work, we conducted pre-research on the horizontal transport of water vapor associated with the migrating diurnal tide (DW1) at 50 Pa in the upper troposphere during major dust storms based on the Mars Climate Database (MCD) 5.3, a state-of-the-art database for Martian atmospheric research that has been validated as simulating the relevant short-period atmospheric dynamics well. We found westward-propagating diurnal patterns in the global water vapor front during nearly all the major dust storms from Martian years (MYs) 24 to 32. Statistical and correlation analyses showed that the diurnal transport of water vapor during global and A-season regional dust storms is dominated by the DW1. The effect of the tidal transport of water vapor varies with the types of dust storms in different seasons. During regional dust storms, the tidal transport induces only limited diurnal motion of the water vapor. However, the horizontal tidal wind tends to increase the abundance of daytime water vapor at mid- to low latitudes during the MY 28 southern summer global dust storm while decreasing it during the MY 25 southern spring global dust storm. The tidal transport process during these two global dust storms can induce opposite effects on water escape.
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