Polar warming in the Mars thermosphere: Seasonal variations owing to changing insolation and dust distributions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Bougher, S W ^a   Bell, J M ^a   Murphy, J R ^b   Lopez Valverde, M A ^c   Withers, P G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

INTERHEMISPHERIC CIRCULATION; MARS; POLAR WARMING; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMOSPHERE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

DUST; INSOLATION; MARS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; WARMING;

EID: 33644746620     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024059     Document Type: Article

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