This page gives you access to the data collected and generated by the RoadMap project
- Collected Data - Level 1 data (Spectra) of Mars missions
- Collected Data - Level 2 data (derived physical quantities) of Mars missions
- Collected Data - Laboratory data
- Generated data - Laboratory (Microphysics)
- Generated data - Laboratory (Radiative properties)
- Generated data - New Space data
- Tools and Methods
Collected Data - Level 1 data (Spectra) of Mars missions
NOMAD / ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
Information on how to get the NOMAD data from the PSA server can be found here. More information on the NOMAD instrument is found on the official website of the insturument.
SPICAM / Mars Express
All spectra recorded by the SPICAM instrument are available on the PSA website.
Collected Data - Level2 data (derived physical quantities) of Mars missions
NOMAD / ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
Data published within specific publications and which were used in the frame of the RoadMap project can be found at:
- Vertical profiles of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere during dust storms in 2018-2019 observed by TGO/NOMAD, Aoki et al., Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 124, 3482-3497 (2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006109 : BIRA-IASB data repository
- Retrieved dust and water ice concentration and particle size over time from solar occultation measurements, Liuzzi et al. (2019); https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JE006250; NASA GSFC Repository: https://psg.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/exomars.php
- NOMAD-UVIS ozone and aerosol vertical profile retrievals for MY 34-35 from solar occultation measurements, Patel et al. (2021); https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE006834; Open Univ. Repository: https://ordo.open.ac.uk/articles/dataset/NOMAD-UVIS_ozone_vertical_profile_retrievals_for_Mars_Year_34-35/13580336/1
- Water vapour vertical profiles in the atmosphere of Mars retrieved from 3.5 years of solar occultation measurements, Aoki et al (2022); https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007231; BIRA-IASB Repository: https://dx.doi.org/10.18758/71021072
- Carbon dioxide retrievals and temperature profiles retrievals with the hydrostatic equilibrium equation from solar occultation measurements, Trompet et al. (2022). BIRA-IASB repository: https://dx.doi.org/10.18758/71021074
- Global distribution of ozone vertical profiles retrieved from solar occultation measurements, Piccialli et al. (2022). BIRA-IASB repository: https://dx.doi.org/10.18758/71021079
GEM-Mars Global Circulation Model
The description of the model and its results can be found on the Model official page.
Specific datasets associated to publications can be found at:
- GEM-Mars GCM simulations for 2018 global dust storm for Neary et al., GRL, 2019: BIRA-IASB data repository
- GEM-Mars GCM simulations of O3 for NOMAD-UVIS solar occultation profiles, Daerden et al. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE006837 BIRA-IASB repository: https://repository.aeronomie.be/?doi=10.18758/71021066
The GEM Mars date can also be directly accessed to through:
https://gem-mars.aeronomie.be/vespa-gem?myear=[34,35]&lat=[-90, 90]&lon=[-180,180]&ls=[0, 360]&lst=[0,24]
VESPA: Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access
Virtual Observatory for Planetary Science, connecting all sorts of data in the field, and providing modern tools to retrieve, cross-correlate, and display data and results of scientific analyses.
Collected Data - Laboratory
Hexahedral particle models
The TAMUdust2020 is a comprehensive, flexible, and user-friendly database for optical properties of dust aerosol and volcanic ash particles. Various ensembles of 20 irregular hexahedral particle models are applied in this database. The database consists of source codes (.f90) and data kernels, which are available from:
- TAMUdust2020 Version 1.0.0: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4711247.
- The latest version of the TAMUdust2020 source codes:https://github.com/masasaito/TAMUdust2020.
Generated data - Laboratory (Microphysics)
Generated data - Laboratory (Radiative properties)
Generated data - New Space data
New data
As soon as new data (Level2) will be created and published, they will be shared here.
VESPA: Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access
As soon as new space data (Level2) will be created withing the project, they will be incorporated into the VESPA portal.
Tools and Methods
Micro-physical model
Electrical charges on grains will be specified. Aggregation of dust in clouds will be described in view of electrical charges and dielectrophoresis.
Dust lifting and transport through the atmosphere
The aerodynamic cross sections will evolve from lifting to aggregation, which will be quantified. This directly translates to sedimentation velocities or gas-grain coupling times of grains. The dependence with height (pressure) at the transition from low to high Knudsen numbers will be given.
Radiative dust and cloud module
This module will take into account the new or improved laboratory measurements.
Computed database of optical properties
Computed database of optical properties of Martian dust will be obtained with the experimentally-validated models.
