A coupled atmosphere–hydrosphere global climate model of early Mars: A ‘cool and wet’ scenario for the formation of water channels

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2020-03
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  • 10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113567
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Elsevier BV

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Abstract Martian water channels are considered evidence of a climate warm enough to allow the existence of long-term fluvial systems on early Mars during the Noachian and Hesperian boundary (3.85–3.6 Ga). Quantitative inferences of water channel formation from climate models are crucial to develop an accurate understanding of the early Martian environment. We present the results of a newly developed 3-dimensional Paleo Martian Global Climate Model (PMGCM) assuming a CO2/H2O/H2 atmosphere under the ‘Faint Young Sun’ condition (with a solar luminosity of ~75% of the current value) for surface pressures between 0.5 and 2 bar. The PMGCM has a hydrologic cycle module, which includes ocean thermodynamics and water vapor advection, convection, condensation and precipitation processes, as well as calculations of surface fluvial activities (e.g., fluvial activity and sediment transport) at a high horizontal resolution. Our PMGCM results show that the early Martian surface environment could have been ‘cool’ (between ‘warm’ and ‘cold’); namely, the surface temperatures could have been high enough (>273 K) during summertime to allow seasonal melting of snow and ice deposits, and low enough (

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  • Icarus

    Icarus 338 113567-, 2020-03

    Elsevier BV

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