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Nature Geoscience 1, 745–749 (1 November 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo332

Intense polar temperature inversion in the middle atmosphere on Mars

D. J. McCleese , J. T. Schofield , F. W. Taylor , W. A. Abdou , O. Aharonson , D. Banfield , S. B. Calcutt , N. G. Heavens , P. G. J. Irwin , D. M. Kass , A. Kleinb|[ouml]|hl , W. G. Lawson , C. B. Leovy , S. R. Lewis , D. A. Paige , P. L. Read , M. I. Richardson , N. Teanby & R. W. Zurek

Current understanding of weather, climate and global atmospheric circulation on Mars is incomplete, in particular at altitudes above about 30|[thinsp]|km. General circulation models for Mars are similar to those developed for weather and climate forecasting on Earth and require more martian observations to allow testing and model improvements.