Mars Orbiters and Landers

External Sites for Mars Atmospheric Models

The following linkages are meant to provide a summary of available Models of Mars’ atmosphere. Suggestions for improvements or offers of data products to be included are invited. Please send them to Reta Beebe at rbeebe@nmsu.edu.

Global Climate Models
NASA Ames Mars Global Climate Model:
https://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/mars-climate-modeling-group/

Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (LMD) Mars Global Climate Model and Database:
https://www-mars.lmd.jussieu.fr/

Mars Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF)
https://planetwrf.com/

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab Mars General Circulation Model
https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/atmospheric-physics-and-chemistry_mars

Mesoscale Models
Mars Regional Atmosphere Modeling System (MRAMS)
https://www.boulder.swri.edu/~rafkin/

Oregon State University (OSU) Mars MM5 Model
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002JGRE..107.5018T

Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (LMD) Mars Mesoscale model
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009JGRE..114.2009S

Upper Atmosphere Model
Mars Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model (M-GITM)
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015JGRE..120..311B

Large Eddy Simulations
Oregon State University (OSU) Mars Large Eddy Simulation (LES) Model
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008JGRE..113.0A12T

Spiga, A., et al., 2016, Large-Eddy Simulations of Dust Devils and Convective Vortices. Space Science Reviews,203, Issues 1-4, 245-274.

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