Epitomic Data for a Multiannual Record of Convective Instability in Mars's Middle Atmosphere from the Mars Climate Sounder
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Heavens, Nicholas (2022), “Epitomic Data for a Multiannual Record of Convective Instability in Mars's Middle Atmosphere from the Mars Climate Sounder”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/fmgvbpwdk7.1 Title: Epitomic Data for a Multiannual Record of Convective Instability in Mars's Middle Atmosphere from the Mars Climate Sounder Author: Nicholas G. Heavens, Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, USA and London, UK (nheavens@spacescience.org) Date: 22 September 2022 Overview: This dataset contains significant data analysis products underlying an upcoming manuscript submission to the Planetary Science Journal. The dataset will be updated as the review process proceeds. The data products fall into three broad categories: (1) estimates of the mean probability of convective instability derived from diagnosis of convective instability in retrieved temperature profiles from Mars Climate Sounder on board Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO-MCS) and a variety of averaging techniques; (2) an overview of temporal data coverage of the MRO-MCS convective instability survey used to make the products in (1); and (3) mean temperature fields derived from MRO-MCS retrieved temperature profiles for comparison with the results of: Steele, L. J., Kleinböhl, A., & Kass, D. M. (2021). Observations of ubiquitous nighttime temperature inversions in Mars' tropics after large-scale dust storms. Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL092651. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092651 If you are using this dataset and are feeling confused or wish there were some additional information from the article in this dataset, please contact me. A complete account of the contents and a restatement of this description is included as MCS_CONVINST_SURVEY_DESC.PDF Acknowledgments: The archiving of this dataset is supported by NASA’s Mars Data Analysis Program (80NSSC19K1215).