Second Mars atmosphere modelling and observations workshop

Program

• The time allocated to each presentation includes the questions, but some extra discussion time is allocated in the session.
• Note that, in Spain, lunch is usually after 2pm and dinner after 9pm
• POSTERS: The recommended poster size is about 90 cm wide x 100-120 cm high

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Registration: 9:00 - 10:00

 Monday, session 1 : 10:00 - 11:30

• 10:00: Welcome and introduction (5')

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION MODELLING: FROM GLOBAL SCALE TO SMALL SCALES (1)

• The GFDL Mars general circulation model : status and recent development (solicited) (R. J. Wilson) 15'
• LMD/AOPP General Circulation Model : status and recent development (Forget et al.) 15'
• Development of a new global, scalable and generic general circulation model for studies of the Martian atmosphere (solicited) (Mischna et al.) 15'
• The MAOAM Project: Review of the Recent Work (Hartogh et al.) 10'
• A New General Circulation Model of   the Martian Atmosphere: Description and First Results (solicited)  (Medvedev et al.) 15'
• High Resolution Simulations of the Martian Atmosphere with a General Circulation Model, Part 1: Model Description  (Takahashi et al.) 15'

11:30 - 12:00 : Coffee break

Monday session 2 : 12:00 - 13:30

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION MODELLING: FROM GLOBAL SCALE TO SMALL SCALES (2)

• Description of the Global Mars Multiscale Model (GM3) (Moudden et al.)15'
• Boundary Layer/ Soil Model For Global Mars Multiscale Model (GM3) (Akingunola and McConnell) 10'
• Modelling the Martian Boundary Layer (Weng et al. ) 15'
• A New Large Eddy Simulation Model to Study the Convective Planetary Boundary Layer On Mars (Tyler et al. ) 15'
• General Circulation Models intercomparison (Wilson et al. ) 20'
• Discussion 13'

• Poster Presentation : Comparison of   atmospheric temperatures obtained through Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science and the Global Mars Multiscale Model (Rosso et al. ) 2'
• Other poster in this session: Winter Polar Warmings and the Meridional Transport on Mars Simulated with a GCM  (Medvedev et al.)
• Other poster in this session: The New Mars Climate Database (Forget et al.)
• Paper given by abstract only: Mars Limited Area Model: Status Report (Siili et al.)

13:30 - 15:30 : Lunch break

Monday session 3 : 15:30 - 17:00

NEW OBSERVATIONS OF WINDS, TEMPERATURES AND SURFACE PRESSURE (1)

• Studies of the Local Circulation in the Martian Atmosphere from PFS data (Grassi et al.) 20'
• Radio-Sounding of the Neutral Martian Atmosphere with Mars Express: Overview of the Observations (Pätzold et al.) 20'
• Mars Exploration Rovers Mini-Tes Observations of   Boundary Layer Temperatures and Aerosol Optical Depth  (Smith et al.) 20'
• Wind Measurements in Mars' Middle Atmosphere at Equinox and Solstice: IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometric CO Observations (Moreno et al.) 15'
• Mesospheric Winds and Temperatures from JCMT Sub-Millimeter CO Line Observations during the 2003 and 2005 Mars Oppositions (Clancy et al.) 15'

17:00 - 17:30  : Tea break

Monday session 4 : 17:30 - 18:50

NEW OBSERVATIONS OF WINDS, TEMPERATURES AND SURFACE PRESSURE (2)

• High Spectral Resolution Observations of CO2 As a Probe For Mars Atmospheric Dynamics (Sonnabend et al.) 15'
• Remote Sensing of the Martian Atmosphere with Ground-Based Telescopes (Bailey et al.) 15'
• Altimetry Retrieval from the OMEGA  Observations (Melchiorri et al.) 15'
• Mapping Surface Pressure Using OMEGA  Observations (Spiga et al.) 15'
• Discussion time 15'

• Poster Presentation : Investigations of the Martian Neutral Atmosphere during the Polar Night and in the early Morning with the Mars Express Radio Science Experiment MaRS (Tellmann et al.) 2'
• Poster Presentation : Topographic and Atmospheric Pressure Mapping Using Near Infrared Imaging and Spectral Observations of Mars (Chamberlain et al.)2'
• Poster Presentation : Derivation of Martian Meteorological Parameters Using Ground-Based Telescopes and Forward-Modelling (Simpson et al.)  2'
• Other posters in this session: Vstar - a New High-Spectral-Resolution Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Code For Mars and Other Planets (J. Bailey)

Posters & wines: Monday 18:50 - 20:30

Tuesday session 1 : 10:00 - 11:30

MARS ATMOSPHERE TRANSIENT EDDIES AND VARIABILITY

• A Mesoscale Model Study of   High Latitude Atmospheric Circulations and Transient Eddies in the northern Polar Summertime (Tyler et al.)   15'
• FFSM Studies of   Transient Eddies in the MGS TES Temperature data (J.R. Barnes) 15'
• Baroclinic Waves in the Martian Atmosphere: Study Using the CCSR/NIES Martian GCM (Kuroda  and Takahashi) 15'
• GCM Simulations of transient Eddies and Frontal Systems in the Martian Atmosphere (Wilson et al.) 15'
• Atmospheric Predictability of the Martian Atmosphere: from Low-Dimensional Dynamics to Operational Forecasting? (Read et al.) 15'
• Discussion time 13'

• Poster Presentation: Effects of Condensation and Radiation on Eddies in the Martian Atmosphere (J. S. Sabato) 2'

11:30 - 12:00 : Coffee break

Tuesday session 2 : 12:00 - 13:30

DATA ASSIMILATION

• Data Assimilation for Mars: An overview of   results from the Mars Global Surveyor period, proposals for future plans and requirements for open access to assimilation output (Lewis et al.) 20'
• Poster Presentation: Climatology on Mars: Interannual Variability of Mean Fields (Rogberg et al. ) 2'
• Paper given by abstract only Data Assimilation Developments for Martian Meteorology (Houben)

DUST, WATER AND ICE IN THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

• TES Atmospheric Temperature, aerosol optical depth, and water vapor observations 1999-2004 (Smith et al.) 20'
• Water Vapor, Water-Ice Clouds, and Dust in the North Polar Region (Tamppari et al.) 20'
• Sundry Atmospheric Observations with the Mars Exploration Rovers: Over- Flights, Refractive Indices, Clouds, and All That Jazz (Wolff et al. ) 20'
• Discussion time 8'

13:30 - 15:30  : Lunch break

Tuesday session 3 : 15:30 - 17:00

PROPERTIES OF ATMOSPHERIC DUST

• OMEGA Spot Pointing Observations of Mars Aerosols (Garcia-Comas et al.) 20'
• OMEGA Limb Observations of the Martian Dust and Atmospheric Composition (Fouchet et al.) 15'
• Martian Atmosphere Limb Observations: Atmospheric Structure from PFS-MEX Measurements (Formisano et al. ) 15'
• A Radiative Transfer Model Applied to the Analysis of Dust Suspended In the Martian Atmosphere   (Fonti et al.) 15'
• Is the Scattered Radiation Inside the 2.7 Microns CO2 Band a Measurement of the Aerosols Dust Opacity ? (Rinaldi et al.)  15'
• Discussion time 8'

• Poster Presentation: Constraining the Martian Dust Properties from the Mars Express/Omega Data (Määttänen et al.)  2'

17:00 - 17:30  : Tea break

Tuesday session 4 : 17:30 - 19:00

IMPACT OF DUST ON THE MARTIAN CLIMATE AND DUST CYCLE MODELLING

• Results On Dust Storms and Stationary Waves In Three Mars Years of Data Assimilation (Montabone et al.) 15'
• Synthesis of MGS Observations of the 2001 Global Dust Storm on Mars (Noble et al.) 15'
• The Martian Atmosphere During the 2001 Global Dust Storm: Observations with SWAS and Simulations with a General Circulation Model (Kuroda, Medvedev and Hartogh) 15'
• The Effects of Atmospheric Dust On the Seasonal Variation of Martian Surface Temperature (Wilson et al.) 15'
• High Resolution Simulations of the Martian Atmosphere with a General Circulation Model, Part 2 : simulation of the dust cycle  (Takahashi et al. ) 15'
• Discussion time 9'

• Poster Presentation: Simulations of the Martian Dust Cycle with a GFDL Mars GCM (Basu et al.) 2'
• Poster Presentation: Calculations Derivation of the Forward Velocity of Martian Dust Devils and  their Comparison with Wind Profiles from of a General Circulation Model  (Stanzel et al.) 2'
• Poster Presentation: Pattern Recognition Algorithms For An Automated Search For Martian Dust Devils (Stanzel et al.)  2'

19:00 End of session

Wednesday session 1 : 10:00 - 11:45  

WATER VAPOR REMOTE SENSING FROM MARS EXPRESS

• Atmospheric Water Vapour from the PFS/Mars Express Observations (Tschimmel et al.) 15'
• Water Vapor Retrieval In the Atmosphere of Mars: Results from the OMEGA Experiment Onboard Mars Express (Maltagliati et al.) 15'
• Water Vapour On Mars from Mars-Express PFS and OMEGA Measurements (Fouchet et al.) 15'
• Water In Mars Atmosphere: Comparison of Recent Data Sets (Korablev et al.) 15'
• Discussion time 15 '

CLOUDS OBSERVATIONS (1)

• One Martian Year Observation of H2O Ice Clouds By OMEGA /Mars Express (Gondet et al.) 15'
• Martian Clouds Distribution Obtained from SPICAM Nadir UV Measurements: Preliminary Results (Mateshvili et al.) 15'

11:45 - 12:15 : Coffee break

Wednesday session 2 : 12:15 - 13:30

CLOUDS OBSERVATIONS (2)

• Seasonal Variation of the Structure of Martian Atmosphere from PFS Mars Express Data: Water Ice Clouds (Zasova et al.) 15'
• The Diurnal Variation and Radiative Influence of Martian Water Ice Clouds (Wilson et al.) 15'
• Stellar Occultations at UV Wavelengths By the SPICAM  Instrument:  Retrieval and Analysis of   Martian Haze Profiles.(Montmessin et al. ). 20'
• Mars Equatorial Mesospheric Clouds (Clancy et al.) 15'
• Discussion time 8'

• Poster Presentation Ice Nucleation In the Martian Atmosphere (Määttänen et al.) 2'

13:30 - 15:15  : Lunch break

Wednesday session 3 : 15:15 - 16:30

WATER AND ICE CYCLE MODELLING

• Tracer Transport In the NASA-Ames GCM : Part 1 :  Water Cycle (Nelli et al.)  15'
• Modeling Martian Water Cycle with Modified GM3 (Akingunola and Mcconnell) 15'
• Seasonal Cycle of the Martian Climate: Comparison of GCM Simulations with Spacecraft Data (Rodin and Wilson) 20'

MODELLING CLIMATE CHANGE INDUCED BY MARS ORBITAL VARIATIONS

• Review: Geological Evidence for Hesperian-Amazonian Climate Change on Mars:  North Polar Layering, South Polar Basal Melting and Circumpolar Lakes, Mid-Latitude Plateau Icefields and Debris-Covered Glaciers, and Tropical Mountain Glaciers (solocited) (J. W. Head III) 25'

16:30 - 16:45 : SHORT Tea break

Wednesday session 4 : 16:45 - 18:00

• Climate simulation of recent climate changes on Mars (Solicited) (Mischna et al.) 15'
• Modelling Mars past water cycle : glacier, ice mantling, gullies and polar caps (Forget et al.) 15'
• Mars Atmosphere and Ice Sheet Modelling (Stenzel et al.)  15'
• Modelling the Evolution of North Polar Cap of  Mars For Recent Past Climate (Mahajan et al.)  15'
• Discussion time 15'

18:00 End of session

19:15 : WORKSHOP DINNER in the Carmen de los Chapiteles, Granada

Thursday session 1 : 10:00 - 11:30

CO2 CYCLE AND POLAR PROCESSES

• Use of Mars Odyssey GRS Results to Constrain the Exchangeable Mass of Martian CO2 (Boynton et al.) 20'
• The Masses of Mars' Seasonal Polar Caps and Changes In the Gravity Field. (Solicited) (Smith and Zuber) 20'
• Poster presentation : Martian Global Scale CO2 Exchange from orbital tracking data ( O. Karatekin, T. Van Hoolst and V. Dehant) 2'
• Meridional Mixing In Mars North Polar Region (Sprague et al.) 20'
• Vertical Mixing In the Mars Polar Atmosphere (D. Hunten) 15'
• Discussion time 13'

11:30 - 12:00 : Coffee break

Thursday session 2 : 12:00 - 13:30

• Tracer Transport In the Nasa-Ames GCM : Part 2 : Non-Condensable Gas (Nelli et al.) 15'
• Modelling the Non-Condensable gas enrichment in the polar night (F.Forget) 15'
• Observations By OMEGA /Mars Express of CO2 and H2O Frosts In the Seasonal Caps During a Full Martian Year (01/2004 - 11/2005)  (Langevin et al.) 25'
• Spatial Variability and Composition of the Seasonal North Polar Cap of Mars (Giuranna et al. ) 20'
• Discussion time 15'

13:30 - 15:30 : Lunch break

Thursday session 3 : 15:30 - 17:10

ATMOSPHERIC  COMPOSITION, PHOTOCHEMISTRY, AND RADIATION ENVIRONMENT

• Ground-Based High-Resolution Ir Spectroscopy of Mars: H2O and H2O2 Mapping, Search for CH4, and Determination of CO2 Isotopic Ratios (Encrenaz et al.)  20'
• Ground-Based Direct Access to Martian Ozone through Infrared Heterodyne Spectroscopy (Fast et al.) 15'
• Ozone Retrieval On Mars from SPICAM/Mex UV/IR Nadir Measurements (Perrier et al.) 20'
• Vertical Distribution of  Ozone, As Measured By SPICAM On Mars-Express (Lebonnois et al.)  20'
• Preliminary Study of UV Radiation On Mars from SPICAM Results and Its Relation to Surface Habitability (Depiesse et al.) 15'
• Discussion time 8'

• Poster Presentation: A New Coupled 3D-Model of the Dynamics and Chemistry of the Martian Atmosphere and Some Problems of the Chemical Modeling (Sonnemann et al.) 2'
• Other Poster in this Session: Millimeter Observations of   Mars with the IRAM 30-m Antenna: Constraints on CO, T(P), and Zonal Winds (Encrenaz et al. ) 15'

17:10 - 17:40 : Tea break

Thursday session 4 : 17:40 - 19:30

• Ozone In Martian Atmosphere from the 1.27 µm O2 Emission: OMEGA/Mars Express Measurements (Zasova et al.) 15'
• Towards a Quantitative Understanding of Martian Ozone (Lefevre et al.) 20'
• 3D Chemistry on Mars Using the Global Multiscale Model (Moudden et al.)  15'
• Photo-Electrochemistry of   Mars, and Prospects For Measurements On the Mars Science Laboratory (Atreya and Mahaffy) 20'
• CO2 Isotopes on Martian Atmosphere from Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS-Mex) Data (Cottini et al.)  15'
• The Effects of Atmospheric Variations On the High Energy Radiation Environment at the Surface of Mars (Keating et al.) 15'
• Discussion time 10'

19:30 End of session

22:00 (10pm) : Andalusí Evening. Tetería, Bajo Albaycin. Granada

Friday session 1 : 10:00 - 11:30

MARS UPPER ATMOSPHERE: OBSERVATION AND MODELLING

• Limb Observations of Infrared Fluorescence of CO2 from OMEGA /Mars Express (Drossart et al.) 20'
• PFS-MEX Observations of non LTE emission at 4 - 5 microns (Formisano et al. ) 15'
• Progress in Modelling Non-LTE radiative processes on Mars (Lopez-Valverde et al.) 15'
• New Technique For Calculating the Non-LTE Infrared Radiative Cooling/Heating Rates In the Martian GCM (Feofilov et al.) 15'
• Mars Ionosphere Sounding By Marsis Subsurface Signals Analysis (Picardi et al.) 15'
• Discussion time 10'

11:30 - 12:00 : Coffee break

Friday session 2 : 12:00 - 13:30

• Mars atmosphere density and temperatures between 60 and 130 km observed by Mars Express SPICAM stellar occultation (Forget et al.) 15'
• Solar Flux Variability and Mars' Thermosphere Densities Derived from Orbital Tracking Data (Bruinsma et al.) 15'
• 1-D and 3-D Modeling of  the Martian Upper Atmosphere (Lopez-Valverde et al.) 15'
• Interannual Variability of   the Mars Thermosphere: New Simulations and Comparisons with Recent Mars Datasets (Bougher et al.) 20'
• Thermal Structure of the Martian Thermosphere: LMD-IAA GCM and MTGCM Intercomparisons (Gonzalez-Galindo et al.) 20'
• Discussion time 5'

13:30 - 15:30 : Lunch break

Friday session 3 : 15:30 - 16:45

FUTURE OBSERVATIONS

• Remote Sensing Studies of the Current Martian Climate by the Mars Climate Sounder on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) (Solicited) (Read et al.) 15'
• Atmospheric Science with MRO/CRISM: Fun, Fun, Fun (Solicited) (Wolff et al.) 15'
• Mars Weather and Ozone Column Mapping with MRO/MARCI (Solicited) (Clancy et al.) 15'
• The Phoenix Lander and climate Science on the surface in 2008 (Solicited) (Tamppari et al.)  15'
• Discussion time 15'

• Paper given by abstract only: Virtual Sensor Technology For Mars Exploration (H. Houben)

16:45 - 17:15 : Tea break

Friday session 4 : 17:15 - 18:15

• The Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL,NASA/JPL 2009) (Solicited) (Vázquez and Gómez-Elvira) 15'
• The Medusa (Martian Environmental Dust Systematic Analyser) Experiment For the Monitoring of  Dust and Water Vapour In the Lower Atmosphere of Mars (Esposito et al.) 15'
• Atmospheric Chemistry Explorer for Mars, Ace-M. (Bernath et al.) 15'
• Metnet Atmospheric Science Network For Mars (Harri et al.) 15'

Friday 18:15 : End of  workshop