Mars

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Yiğit, E. (2024), Exploring Mars's harsh atmosphere, Physics Today, 77 (7), 42–50, https://doi.org/10.1063/pt.sjcv.azbb.

An article on the Martian atmosphere and ionosphere for the general physics audience. Covered topics are:

• Atmosphere

• Meteorology

• Space weather and escape

• Living on Mars 

• Clouds and dust

Yiğit, E. Coupling and interactions across the Martian whole atmosphere system. (2023) Nat. Geosci., 16, 123-132,  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01118-7 

A comprehensive review of whole atmosphere processes and interactions in the Martian atmosphere. This is the first article of its kind discussing whole atmosphere coupling on Mars, inspired by the work done in Earth's atmosphere-ionosphere  

Yiğit, E. (2021), Martian water escape and internal waves, Science, Vol 374, Issue 6573, doi: 10.1126/science.abg5893.

A perspective article on the role of gravity waves in escape.

Yiğit, E., A. S. Medvedev, P. Hartogh (2021), Variations of the Martian Thermospheric Gravity Wave Activity during the Recent Solar Minimum as Observed by MAVEN, Astrophys. J., 920, 2, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac15fc.

Using MAVEN/NGIMS I have studied the variation of gravity wave activity during the solar minimum. 

Yiğit, E., A. S. Medvedev, M. Benna, B. Jakosky (2021), Dust storm-enhanced gravity wave activity in the Martian thermosphere observed by MAVEN and implications for atmospheric escape, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, doi: 10.1029/2020GL092095.

Using MAVEN/NGIMS observations I studied the variation of thermospheric gravity wave activity during Martian global dust storms. 

Yiğit, E., A. S. Medvedev (2019), Obscure waves in planetary atmospheres, Physics Today, 6, 40-46, doi:10.1063/PT.3.4226.

A Physics Today article on gravity in planetary atmospheres for the general physics and science community.

Yiğit, E. , A. S. Medvedev, P. Hartogh (2018), Influence of gravity waves on the climatology of high-altitude Martian carbon dioxide ice clouds, Ann. Geophys., 36, 1631-1646, doi: 10.5194/angeo-36-1631-2018.

Using a Martian general circulation incorporating the whole atmosphere gravity wave parameterization Yiğit et al. (2008), I studied the impact of gravity waves on the Martian high altitude clouds.  

Yiğit, E., S. L. England, G. Liu, A. S. Medvedev, P. R. Mahaffy, T. Kuroda, and B. M. Jakosky (2015), High-altitude gravity waves in the Martian thermosphere observed by MAVEN/NGIMS and modeled by a gravity wave scheme, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:0.1002/2015GL065307.

First measurement of atmospheric gravity waves in the Martian thermosphere