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Diurnal CO2 Ice Instabilities

Diurnal CO₂ condensation and defrosting often leads to rather small instabilities. Most often, these instabilities yield surface temperature oscillations of a fraction of a K.

But near the local time of first frost deposition and last frost removal, oscillations can reach 20+K, without clear consequences for temperatures calculated at other times.

dv> out=krc(lat=-30.,INERTIA=30.)
dv> plot(out.tsurf[,,],"I=30 SI")
dv>

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Sets DELLS=0. to avoid this issue but error message: Please do not set both DELLS and DELJUL XXX

OUT = krc(T=190,ls=359.99,hour=4.,lat=12.,lon=12.,DELLS=0.)

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