HR: 09:45h
AN: P21E-08    [Abstracts]
TI: Simulation of Water Cycle With a Martian Weather Research and Forecast Model
AU: * Inada, A
EM: inada@gps.caltech.edu
AF: California Institute of Technology, M.S. 150-21 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125 United States
AU: Richardson, M I
EM: mir@gps.caltech.edu
AF: California Institute of Technology, M.S. 150-21 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125 United States
AU: Mischna, M A
EM: mischna@mail.jpl.nasa.gov
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AU: Newman, C E
EM: claire@gps.caltech.edu
AF: California Institute of Technology, M.S. 150-21 1200 E. California Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91125 United States
AU: Toigo, A D
EM: toigo@astro.cornell.edu
AF: Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe Univ., 1-1 Nada, Kobe, 657-8501 Japan
AU: Vasavada, A R
EM: ashwin_vasavada@yahoo.com
AF: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 United States
AB: The water cycle in the Martian atmosphere is influenced by exchange with the subsurface, condensation on the surface, mixing between the boundary layer and the free atmosphere, large-scale horizontal mixing of air masses and precipitation as water ice particles. We have installed a water cycle model with microphysics processes into the Martian Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model. It treats subsurface water diffusion and adsorptive / condensational exchange, surface ice formation and diffusive mixing in the atmosphere. Formed water ice particles in the atmosphere are transformed by advection, diffusion and sedimentation. We will present the spatial and diurnal variation of water including cloud/fog formation.
DE: 5210 Planetary atmospheres, clouds, and hazes (0343)
DE: 6225 Mars
SC: Planetary Sciences [P]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005