Data associated with ”Different behavior of density perturbations between dayside and nightside in the Martian thermosphere and the ionosphere associated with atmospheric gravity waves”
This provides the results of the 2-fluid model used to assess how well the neutral and ion observations from MAVEN-NGIMS can be matched to a theoretical atmospheric gravity wave. The data provide the location of each sample, and the measure of the goodness of fit to the model output.
A full description of the 2-fluid model can be found in England, S. L., G. Liu, E. Yiğit, P. R. Mahaffy, M. Elrod, M. Benna, H. Nakagawa, N. Terada, and B. Jakosky (2017), MAVEN NGIMS observations of atmospheric gravity waves in the Martian thermosphere, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JA023475. A version of the code is available at https://github.com/NASA-Planetary-Science/wave-fit-toolkit.
The MAVEN-NGIMS data are available from NASA PDS at https://pds-atmospheres.nmsu.edu/data_and_services/atmospheres_data/MAVEN/ngims.html
Funding
IMPACTS OF ATMOSPHERIC WAVES ON THE MARTIAN UPPER ATMOSPHERE FROM MAVEN & MRO
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Find out more...