Perseverance MEDA/TIRS dust and water ice retrievals
Description
The file "Smith_TIRS_TotalAeroso.datl" contains retrieval results of aerosol optical depth using observations taken by the Perseverance rover Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS), which is part of the MEDA instrument suite on the rover. The file has 8 columns, which are given in a header: 1. Sol Number 2. Local True Solar Time (LTST) 3. Ls (Mars Year 36 if Ls<360, Mars Year 37 if Ls>360) 4. Total Aerosol Optical Depth 5. Observed IR2 signal from TIRS (as an effective temperature) 6. Observed surface temperature from TIRS 7. Observed surface pressure from MEDA (mbar) 8. Water condensation level (pressure scale heights above the surface) The file "Smith_TIRS_DustIceSeparated.dat" contains retrieval results of aerosol optical depth using observations taken by the Perseverance rover Thermal InfraRed Sensor (TIRS), which is part of the MEDA instrument suite on the rover. Here, the separate contributions to aerosol optical depth from dust and water ice clouds has been separated by assuming the diurnal variations in water ice clouds are much greater than those from dust. The file has 8 columns, which are given in a header: 1. Sol Number 2. Local True Solar Time (LTST) 3. Ls (Mars Year 36 if Ls<360, Mars Year 37 if Ls>360) 4. Total Aerosol Optical Depth 5. Fraction of total aerosol optical depth contributed by water ice clouds ("f_ice") 6. Dust optical depth 7. Water ice optical depth 8. Observed surface pressure from MEDA (mbar)