Modeling Dust Injection and Vertical Mixing for the Next Generation of Martian Exploration
From August 2015, HU is leading an effort in cooperation with Aeolis Research and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (both in Pasadena, California) to better represent the formation of dust clouds above Mars’s planetary boundary layer in planetary-scale simulations of Mars’s atmosphere.
This first paper to come out of this project recently was accepted by Icarus. It describes how observations by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) can be used to observe fine structure in Martian clouds.
Heavens, N.G. 2017b, The Reflectivity of Mars at 1064 nm: Derivation from Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Data and Application to Climatology and Meteorology, accepted by Icarus,