Users Guides

KRC User’s Guides and Related Literature

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User's Guides

Guide to KRC version 3.4, and background (PDF): User’s Guide for changes between KRC v2.4.1 and v3.4.2

KRC planetary surface temperatures: Helplist (PDF): Advanced guide for KRC users looking to create their own input parameter file

Planetary Orbit (PORB) User’s Guide (PDF): General User’s Guide for applying KRC applied to bodies other than Mars

• List of available Asteroids

• List of available Comets

The KRC Planetary ORBit (PORB) System (PDF): PORB Design Guide for advanced users

KRC version 2 and 3: Thin/deep layers and long runs (PDF): Advanced Guide on effect of spin-up, season spacing, layer thickness and model depth on model output

Theory Literature

Thermal model for analysis of Mars infrared mapping (Online Article): Thorough discussion of the KRC model, its numerical basis, its uses, and comparisons to other numerical models

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Mars seasons: Development of when LS = 0 and functions for LS(t) (PDF): In-depth guide for the calculations involved with the seasonal indicator (LS)

• Use the Online L_S Calculator Tool

Particulate thermal conduction (PDF): Theoretical and Numerical guide to discuss consolidated and unconsolidated soils

Temperature dependence of rock thermal properties (PDF): Discussion of importance of temperature dependence in the KRC numerical model

Enumeration of Mars years and seasons since the beginning of telescopic exploration (Online Article): Article to clarify the methods used to generate the seasonal indicator (LS) used in KRC

Publications Using KRC

Effect of polymorphism on the absorption of chloramphenicol from chloramphenicol palmitate (Online Article): For evidence of KRC model use

High-Resolution Thermal Inertia Mapping from the Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Online Article): For evidence of KRC model use

Rock abundance on Mars from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Online Article): For evidence of KRC model use

High-resolution thermal inertia derived from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS): Thermal model and applications: For evidence of KRC model use

A model of thermal conductivity for planetary soils: 2. Theory for cemented soils: For evidence of KRC model use