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. 2021 Feb 8;217(1):20. doi: 10.1007/s11214-020-00788-2

Table 2.

Daily mean visible column dust opacity over the landing site at the four key seasons examined in Sects. 5 and 6, and a summary of the dust scenario used, for each of the nine simulations

Simulation Visible dust opacity for season shown Dust scenario used (see Sects. 3.1.1 to 3.7.1 for more details)
Ls ∼ 5 Ls ∼ 90 Ls ∼ 180 Ls ∼ 270
GEM-Mars 0.26 0.18 0.19 0.52 Interactive dust with dust devil and saltation lifting
LMD global 0.31 0.26 0.35 0.62 Interactive dust but rescaled to match dust maps from years without global storms
OpenMARS 0.32 0.26 0.30 0.61 Assimilated temperature and dust from MY32
Ames low-resolution 0.30 0.26 0.4 0.63 Interactive dust but with lifting constrained to match MY30 dust opacity map
MarsWRF global 0.30 0.19 0.33 0.44 Prescribed using TES nadir and limb dust opacities for years without global storms
LMD mesoscale 0.31 N/A N/A N/A As in LMD global model
Ames high-resolution 0.30 0.26 0.4 0.63 As in Ames low-resolution model
MarsWRF mesoscale 0.30 0.19 0.33 0.44 As in MarsWRF global model
MRAMS 0.33 0.22 0.23 0.54 Prescribed using MY24 TES nadir dust maps and SPICAM vertical profiles