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Characterization of the atmospheric gravity waves on Mars at altitudes 10-180 km as measured by the ACS/TGO solar occultations

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Atmospheric gravity waves (GW) are periodic oscillations of air masses that manifest themselves as fluctuations of density, temperature, pressure and other quantities. Studying vertical distributions of density and temperature helps to characterize vertical propagation of GWs and evaluate their influence on the coupling between atmospheric layers.We report on the first results of GWs retrievals in the Martian atmosphere from the solar occultation experiment performed by the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter TGO [1]. This is the first time when GWs were measured simultaneously in almost the entire atmosphere. The ACS is a set of infrared spectrometers operating on the orbit of Mars since April 2018. The mid-infrared channel (ACS-MIR) is a cross-dispersion spectrometer covering the 2.3-4.2 µm spectral range with the resolving power reaching ~30 000. In the solar occultation mode the spectrometer can observe thin layers of the Martian thermosphere and lower atmosphere in strong (e.g. 2.7 and 4.3 μm) and weak (about 3 μm) CO2 absorption bands with vertical resolution ~1 km. The near-infrared channel (ACS-NIR) is another echelle spectrometer working in the 0.73-1.6 µm spectral range with the resolving power ~25000 [2]. Due to the high resolution, these instruments (operating simultaneously) allow for deriving the temperature, pressure and density fluctuations at the unprecedented altitude range from 10 to 180 km. The dataset we present consists of more than 100 vertical profiles derived at seasons from the second half of MY34 to the beginning of MY35 in the both Martian hemispheres. The data analysis in IKI is supported by the RSF grant #20-42-09035.
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insu-04494893 , version 1 (07-03-2024)

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Ekaterina Starichenko, Denis Belyaev, Alexander Medvedev, Anna Fedorova, Oleg Korablev, et al.. Characterization of the atmospheric gravity waves on Mars at altitudes 10-180 km as measured by the ACS/TGO solar occultations. 22nd EGU General Assembly, May 2020, Online, Unknown Region. pp.id.18609, ⟨10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18609⟩. ⟨insu-04494893⟩
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