P087
Modeling the Current Atmosphere and Climate of Mars I

Wednesday, 16 December 2020: 19:00-20:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Melinda A Kahre, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Conveners:  Kathryn Steakley, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States and Victoria Hartwick, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Melinda A Kahre, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Chairs:  Melinda A Kahre, Kathryn Steakley and Victoria Hartwick, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Melinda A Kahre, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
19:00
Introductory Remarks
19:03
Update on the New Dynamical Core of the GEM-Mars GCM with a Yin-Yang Grid Configuration (690990)
Lori Neary and Frank Daerden, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium
19:06
Presenter 1 Q&A
19:09
Development and Validation of the Mars Model for Prediction Across Scales (Mars MPAS) (761309)
Mark Ian Richardson and Yuan Lian, Aeolis Research, Chandler, AZ, United States
19:12
Presenter 2 Q&A
19:15
Using Gravity Wave Resolving Simulations from the NASA Ames Mars Global Climate Model to Inform Parameterized Gravity Wave Drag Schemes (768645)
Alexandre Kling1, Robert John Wilson1, Melinda A Kahre1, Amanda S Brecht1, James Richard Murphy2 and Richard A Urata3, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Astronomy, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States
19:18
Presenter 3 Q&A
19:21
Investigating changes in dust particles size in the Martian atmosphere during Global Dust Storms with the NASA Ames Mars Global Climate Model (707290)
Tanguy Bertrand1, Melinda A Kahre1, Robert John Wilson1, Michael J Wolff2, Robert Michael Haberle3, Franck Montmessin4, Richard A Urata1, Victoria Hartwick5, Alexandre Kling6, Amanda S Brecht1, Kathryn Steakley7 and Courtney Batterson8, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NASA Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Observations Spatiales, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, Sorbonne université, CNRS, Paris, France, (5)University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)Universities Space Research Association Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (7)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Astronomy, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (8)NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, United States
19:24
Presenter 4 Q&A
19:27
Thermospheric Temperature Responses during the 2018 PEDE Event as Observed by the MAVEN IUVS Instrument: Implications for Changing Dynamics using Mars GITM Simulations (669537)
Stephen W Bougher1, Sonal Jain2, Kali Roeten3, James Richard Murphy4, David J Pawlowski5, Erdal Yiğit6, Justin Deighan2 and Nicholas McCord Schneider7, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)New Mexico State University Main Campus, Astronomy, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (5)Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, United States, (6)George Mason University Fairfax, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Fairfax, VA, United States, (7)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
19:30
Presenter 5 Q&A
19:33
Understanding Martian Proton Aurora through a Coordinated Multi-Model Comparison Campaign (717316)
Andrea C. G. Hughes1, Michael Chaffin2, Edwin Mierkiewicz1, Justin Deighan2, Nicholas McCord Schneider3, Sonal Jain2, Rebecca Jolitz4, Esa Jukka Kallio5, Guillaume Gronoff6, Cyril Simon Wedlund7, Valery Shematovich8, Dmitry Bisikalo8, Birgit Ritter9 and Jean-Claude M. C. Gerard10, (1)Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL, United States, (2)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, Espoo, Finland, (6)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, (7)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (8)Institute of Astronomy, Moskow, Russia, (9)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, (10)Université de Liège, LPAP - STAR Institute, Liege, Belgium
19:36
Presenter 6 Q&A
19:39
Localizing Methane Emission Sites on Mars from Inverse Modeling (732305)
Michael Mischna1, Yangcheng Luo2, Yuk L Yung3, John C Lin4 and Benjamin Fasoli4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
19:42
Presenter 7 Q&A
19:45
Using InSight Wind Data to Validate Atmospheric Models and Improve Predictions for Other Locations on Mars (731155)
Claire E Newman, Aeolis Research, Tucson, AZ, United States, Mariah MacQueen Baker, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, United States, Donald J Banfield, Cornell University, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Ithaca, NY, United States, Maria Banks, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ozgur Karatekin, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, Sara Navarro, Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA), Instrumentation, Madrid, Spain, Jorge Pla-García, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Aymeric Spiga, LMD/IPSL, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France - Institut Universitaire de France, France, Palaiseau Cedex, France, Orkun Temel, KULeuven, Institute of Astronomy, Leuven, Belgium, Daniel Viudez-Moreiras, Centro de Astrobiologia, Instituto National de Tecnica Aerospacial, Madrid, Spain and The Temperature and Wind for InSight (TWINS) Team and the InSight Science Team
19:48
Presenter 8 Q&A
19:51
Discussion
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