Replication Data for: Observations of Water Frost on Mars with THEMIS: Application to the Presence of Brines and the Stability of (Sub)Surface Water Ice

Observations of Water Frost on Mars with THEMIS: Application to the Presence of Brines and the Stability of (Sub)Surface Water Ice L.Lange, S.Piqueux, C.S.Edwards, F.Forget, J.Naar, E.Vos, A.Szantai Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique Copyright 2024. All rights reserved. Corresponding author: Lucas Lange Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique 4 place Jussieu Tower 45-55, 3rd floor 75005 Paris, FRANCE Office 304 mailto: [e-mail] Supporting information associated with the paper \"Observations of Water Frost on Mars with THEMIS: Application to the Presence of Brines and the Stability of (Sub)Surface Water Ice\" - Data_Figure1_SolarFluxTOA.txt is a 360 x 180 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing top of the atmosphere solar insolation [W/m^2], in simple cylindrical projection, spatial resolution of 1 value per degree. Solar lLongitude (x axis, [°]) range from 1 to 360, 1 degree step. Latitudes (y axis, [°]) range from 89.5 to -89.5, 1 degree step. This file was used for the generation of Figure 1. - Data_Figure1_THEMIS.txt is a 39496 x 4 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing the latitude (1st column, °N), the longitude (2nd column, °E), the solar longitude (3rd column, °), the true solar local time (4th column, hr) of the THEMIS images analyzed in this study. This file was used for the generation of Figure 1. - Data_Figure3_humidrichardson.txt is a 1501 x 1231 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing the humid Richardson number as a function of surface temperature (x-axis, ranging from 150K to 273K, step 0.1 K) and atmospheric temperature (y-axis, ranging from 150K to 300K, step 0.1 K). This file was used for the generation of Figure 3a. - Data_Figure3_ratio_stabilityfunction.txt is a 1501 x 1231 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing the ratio of the stability function computed with the wet Richardson and the near-surface wind speed accounting for gustiness induced by water buoyancy as a function of surface temperature (x-axis, ranging from 150K to 273K, step 0.1 K) and atmospheric temperature (y-axis, ranging from 150K to 300K, step 0.1 K). This file was used for the generation of Figure 3b. - Data_Figure3_ratio_stabilityfunction_guestiness.txt is a 1501 x 1231 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing the ratio of the stability function computed with the wet Richardson number and the dry Richardson number as a function of surface temperature (x-axis, ranging from 150K to 273K, step 0.1 K) and atmospheric temperature (y-axis, ranging from 150K to 300K, step 0.1 K). This file was used for the generation of Figure 3c. - Data_Figure4_30degslope.txt is a 360 x 1 space separated table of floats in ascii h2o frost thickness for a 30° pole-facing slope at Promethei Terra (32.3°S, 118.6°E) as a function of the solar longitude (x-axis, ranging from 0° to 360K, step 1°). This file was used for the generation of Figure 4. - Data_Figure4_14degslope.txt is a 360 x 1 space separated table of floats in ascii h2o frost thickness for a 14° pole-facing slope at Promethei Terra (32.3°S, 118.6°E) as a function of the solar longitude (x-axis, ranging from 0° to 360K, step 1°). This file was used for the generation of Figure 4. - Data_Figure5_WaterFrost.txt is a 2006 x 4 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing the latitude (1st column, °N), the longitude (2nd column, °E), the solar longitude (3rd column, °), the true solar local time (4th column, hr) of the water frost detected on THEMIS images and analyzed in this study. This file was used for the generation of Figure 5. - Data_Figure6_30degslope.txt is a 841 x 1 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing the water frost thickness modeled by the PCM on a 30° pole facing slope between 20°S and 30°S. This file was used for the generation of Figure 6a. - Data_Figure6_14degslope.txt is a 358 x 1 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing the water frost thickness modeled by the PCM on a 14° pole facing slope between 20°S and 30°S. This file was used for the generation of Figure 6b. - Data_Figure6_6degslope.txt is a 267 x 1 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing the water frost thickness modeled by the PCM on a 14° pole facing slope between 20°S and 30°S. This file was used for the generation of Figure 6c. - Data_Figure7_CO2Frost.txt is a 1245 x 4 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing the latitude (1st column, °N), the longitude (2nd column, °E), the solar longitude (3rd column, °), the true solar local time (4th column, hr) of the water frost detected on THEMIS images and analyzed in this study. This file was used for the generation of Figure 7. - Data_Figure8_CO2Frost_30deg.txt is a 164 x 2 space separated table of floats in ascii format containing the solar longitude (1st column, °) and the latitudinal extent (2nd column, °N) of the water frost modeled by the PCM in the South....