Modeling the redistribution of dust across the Martian surface from Mars Years 24 to 36 [Data]

Abstract

This dataset contains two sets of Mars atmospheric dust scenarios based on the daily maps of the column dust optical depth (CDOD) from Montabone et al. (2015, 2020). The first set contains 7 artificial dust scenarios with shifted timings of the Mars Year 25 global dust event (Ls=150° to Ls=330°, in steps of 30° of Ls). The second set contains dust scenarios for Mars Years 29 to 33, with additional storms shapes from the Mars Dust Storm Sequence Database (Saidel et al., 2022). For the MDSSD storms, a homogeneous storm CDOD of 0.6 (at 9.3 µm) was assumed. All these scenarios can be used to model the dust cycle in the LMD Mars Planetary Climate Model.