license: cc-by-4.0
tags:
- Mars
- Atmosphere
- Analysis
- zarr
- MACDA
MACDA — ARCO Format
Analysis-Ready and Cloud Optimized Zarr conversion of the MACDA v2.0. reanalysis (Valeanu et al. 2026), covering Mars Years 24–35.
Variables
| Variable | Description | Units |
|---|---|---|
| temp | Atmospheric temperature | K |
| uwind | Zonal wind | m s-1 |
| vwind | Meridional wind | m s-1 |
| psurf | Surface pressure | Pa |
| tsurf | Surface temperature | K |
| coldust | Column dust optical depth | 1 |
| dustmmr | Dust mass mixing ratio (3D) | kg kg-1 |
| geop | Geopotential | m2 s-2 |
| omega | Vertical velocity | Pa s-1 |
| co2ice | Surface CO2 ice | kg m-2 |
| swflux | Shortwave surface flux | W m-2 |
| lwflux | Longwave surface flux | W m-2 |
Citation
Bhattacharya, A. (2026). ARCO-MACDA: Analysis-Ready Cloud-Optimized MACDA Reanalysis. https://doi.org/10.57967/hf/8771
Valeanu, A.; Rajendran, K.; Montabone, L.; Read, P.L. (2026): Mars Analysis Correction Data Assimilation (MACDA): Atmospheric and surface fields produced from assimilated MGS/TES, ODY/THEMIS, and MRO/MCS observations, v2.0. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 30 January 2026. doi:10.5285/cd037a9ea387438fabf4d674dbe53088. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/cd037a9ea387438fabf4d674dbe53088
Read, P. L., A. Valeanu, Tao Ruan, L. Montabone, S. R. Lewis, and R. M. B. Young. "MACDA II: A New Reanalysis for the Martian Atmosphere Using Vertically-Resolved Dust Opacity Observations." (2022).
Battalio, Michael, Istvan Szunyogh, and Mark Lemmon. "Energetics of the martian atmosphere using the Mars Analysis Correction Data Assimilation (MACDA) dataset." Icarus 276 (2016): 1-20.
BibTeX
@misc{bhattacharya2026arco_macda, author = {Bhattacharya, Ananyo}, title = {{ARCO-MACDA}: Analysis-Ready Cloud-Optimized {MACDA} Reanalysis}, year = {2026}, publisher = {Hugging Face}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.57967/hf/8771}, url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/ananyo01/ARCO-MACDA} }