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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets Année : 2012

Extensive MRO CRISM observations of 1.27 μm O2 airglow in Mars polar night and their comparison to MRO MCS temperature profiles and LMD GCM simulations

R. Todd Clancy
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Franck Lefèvre
Armin Kleinböhl
Nicholas Heavens

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The Martian polar night distribution of 1.27 μm (0-0) band emission from O2 singlet delta [O2(1Δg)] is determined from an extensive set of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectral Mapping (CRISM) limb scans observed over a wide range of Mars seasons, high latitudes, local times, and longitudes between 2009 and 2011. This polar nightglow reflects meridional transport and winter polar descent of atomic oxygen produced from CO2 photodissociation. A distinct peak in 1.27 μm nightglow appears prominently over 70-90NS latitudes at 40-60 km altitudes, as retrieved for over 100 vertical profiles of O2(1Δg) 1.27 μm volume emission rates (VER). We also present the first detection of much (x80±20) weaker 1.58 μm (0-1) band emission from Mars O2(1Δg). Co-located polar night CRISM O2(1Δg) and Mars Climate Sounder (MCS, McCleese et al, 2007) temperature profiles are compared to the same profiles as simulated by the Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (LMD) general circulation/photochemical model (e.g., Lefevre et al, 2004). Both standard and interactive aerosol LMD simulations (Madeleine et al, 2011) underproduce CRISM O2(1Δg) total emission rates by 40%, due to inadequate transport of atomic oxygen to the winter polar emission regions. Incorporation of interactive cloud radiative forcing on the global circulation leads to distinct but insufficient improvements in modeled polar O2(1Δg) and temperatures. The observed and modeled anti-correlations between temperatures and 1.27 μm band VER reflect the temperature dependence of the rate coefficient for O2(1Δg) formation, as provided in Roble (1995).
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hal-00716395 , version 1 (11-11-2020)

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R. Todd Clancy, Brad J. Sandor, Michael J. Wolff, Michael D. Smith, Franck Lefèvre, et al.. Extensive MRO CRISM observations of 1.27 μm O2 airglow in Mars polar night and their comparison to MRO MCS temperature profiles and LMD GCM simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, 2012, 117, pp.E00J10. ⟨10.1029/2011JE004018⟩. ⟨hal-00716395⟩
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