Published August 2023
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Journal Article
Spatial extent of dust storm boundaries in the Mars Dust Activity Database
Abstract
The Mars Dust Activity Database (MDAD) v1.1 is expanded to include all dust storm instance boundaries in MDAD v1.0 from the Mars Color Imager years (Mars Years 28–32). Dust storm boundaries are provided in two formats to ease adoption by the community: as netCDF masks and in comma separated value files. We demonstrate the utility of dust storm boundaries by showing how the frequency of dust storms evolves with season across the surface. The highest dust storm frequencies occur in the southern hemisphere around L_s = 0° and L_s = 270° and in the northern hemisphere around L_s = 180° and L_s = 300°.
Additional Information
© 2023 Elsevier. The Mars Dust Activity Database v1.1, including code to generate the accompanying figure, can be found at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7480334 and is supported by NASA Mars Data Analysis Program Grant #80NSSC22K1077. The Mars Dust Activity Database v1.0 can be found at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/F8R2JX and was supported by NASA Mars Data Analysis Program Grant #80NSSC17K0475. Version 2 MARCI MDGMs are available at https://astrogeology.usgs.gov/search/map/Mars/MarsReconnaissanceOrbiter/MARCI/MARS-MRO-MARCI-Mars-Daily-Global-Maps. The manuscript was improved with comments from Michael Mischna and an anonymous reviewer. Data availability. The data are shared in zenodo at the link included in the acknowledgments. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.Additional details
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20230530-441700800.50
- 80NSSC22K1077
- NASA
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