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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| tags: |
| - Mars |
| - Atmosphere |
| - Analysis |
| - zarr |
| - MACDA |
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| # MACDA — ARCO Format |
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| Analysis-Ready and Cloud Optimized Zarr conversion of the MACDA v2.0. reanalysis (Valeanu et al. 2026), |
| covering Mars Years 24–35. |
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| ## Variables |
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| | 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 | |
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| ## Citation |
| Bhattacharya, A. (2026). ARCO-MACDA: Analysis-Ready Cloud-Optimized MACDA Reanalysis. [https://doi.org/10.57967/hf/8771](https://doi.org/10.57967/hf/8771) |
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| 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 |
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| ## 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} |
| } |
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