|
Detailed Reference Information |
Forbes, J.M. and Hagan, M.E. (2000). Diurnal Kelvin wave in the atmosphere of Mars: Towards an understanding of ’stationary’ density structures observed by the MGS accelerometer. Geophysical Research Letters 27: doi: 10.1029/2000GL011850. issn: 0094-8276. |
|
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) accelerometer measurements near 125 km [Keating et al., 1998> reveal longitudinal density structures comprised of zonal wavenumbers s=1 and s=2 which are interpreted as stationary waves. An alternative interpretation is that these structures may be nonmigrating tides which appear as quasistationary features due to restricted sampling in local time, and which owe their existence to Mars' topography. One of these oscillations, the diurnal Kelvin wave, is investigated here. It gives rise to density perturbations similar to the measurements. Other nonmigrating tides may also make important contributions. ¿ 2000 American Geophysical Union |
|
|
|
BACKGROUND DATA FILES |
|
|
Abstract |
|
|
|
|
|
Keywords
Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Waves and tides, Planetology, Fluid Planets, Atmospheres—structure and dynamics, Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Planetary meteorology (5445, 5739) |
|
Publisher
American Geophysical Union 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 20009-1277 USA 1-202-462-6900 1-202-328-0566 service@agu.org |
|
|
|