Mars Atmosphere-Ice Coupler MAIC-2
The Mars Atmosphere-Ice Coupler MAIC-2 is a simple, latitudinal model, which consists of a set of parameterisations for the surface temperature, the atmospheric water transport and the surface mass balance (condensation minus evaporation) of water ice. It is driven directly by orbital parameters. A detailed description of the model is given in the publication by Greve et al. (2010).
The model equations of MAIC-2 are discretised by a finite-difference/finite-volume scheme. Coding is done in the programming language Fortran 90.
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Required model forcing
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Output (as functions of latitude and time):
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How to get MAIC-2
- Option 1: Check out from subversion repository:
svn checkout svn://nye.lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp/maic2/tags/release2 maic2 - Option 2: Download as a tarball (gzipped tar archive, 770 KB).
Legal notes
MAIC-2 is free software. It can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at the user's option) any later version. Referencing the publication by Greve et al. (2010) is appreciated.
MAIC-2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Documentation
- Quick Start Manual (PDF).
- Publication by Greve et al. (2010).
- The source code itself is reasonably well documented.
Support
- Please contact maic2help
greveweb.net
Reference
- Greve, R., B. Grieger and O. J. Stenzel. 2010.
- MAIC-2, a latitudinal model for the Martian surface temperature,
atmospheric water transport and surface glaciation.
Planetary and Space Science 58 (6), 931-940. doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2010.03.002.
Authors'
version @ arXiv:0903.2688 [physics.geo-ph].