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SUBMITTER: Streeter PM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7375149 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Streeter Paul M PM Lewis Stephen R SR Patel Manish R MR Holmes James A JA Kass David M DM
Geophysical research letters 20200506 9
The impact of Mars's 2018 Global Dust Storm (GDS) on surface and near-surface air temperatures was investigated using an assimilation of Mars Climate Sounder observations. Rather than simply resulting in cooling everywhere from solar absorption (average surface radiative flux fell 26 W/m<sup>2</sup>), the globally averaged result was a 0.9-K surface warming. These diurnally averaged surface temperature changes had a novel, highly nonuniform spatial structure, with up to 16-K cooling/19-K warming ...[more]