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A.a. Atmospheric model

The model atmosphere is described by a two-dimensional anelastic system (Ogura and Phllips, 1962). The effect of planetary rotation is not considered.

    (A.1)
    (A.2)
    (A.3)
    (A.4)
     

(A.1), (A.2) are the horizontal and vertical components of the equation of motion, respectively. (A.3) is the continuity equation and (A.4) is the thermodynamic equation. are the horizontal, vertical and time coordinates, respectively. are horizontal and vertical wind velocity, respectively. are perturbation of potential temperature and non-dimensional pressure function from the basic state, respectively are density, potential temperature and temperature in the basic state. is gravitational acceleration whose value is equal to 3.72 m sec-2 is the radiative heating (cooling) rate per unit mass, which is described in Appendix A.d in detail. is the heating rate per unit mass owing to the dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy, which is given by the turbulent parameterization. in Equations (A.1) ∼ (A.4) represents turbulent diffusion, which is caused by subgrid-scale turbulent mixing as follows.

    (A.5)

is the turbulent diffusion coefficient and is calculated by Equations (A.9) and (A.10).

The non-dimensional pressure function and potential temperature are defined as follows.




Where and are pressure and pressure in the basic state, is the reference pressure ( = 7 hPa), and is the specific heat at constant pressure per unit mass, is the atmospheric gas constant per unit mass. are set as those of CO2 ( 734.9 J kg-1 K-1, 189.0 J kg-1 K-1, respectively). The basic state of the atmospheric structure is calculated by using the hydrostatic equation and equation of state for ideal gas, as follows.

(A.6)
(A.7)

The perturbation of the non-dimensional pressure function is diagnosed by using the following equation, which is derived from Equations (A.1) ∼ (A.3).

 
     
    (A.8)


A Numerical Simulation of Thermal Convection in the Martian Lower Atmosphere with a Two-Dimensional Anelastic Model
Odaka, Nakajima, Ishiwatari, Hayashi,   Nagare Multimedia 2001
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