Table 4

Physical parameters.

Symbol Value References
General parameters
Solar constant S 1361 W m−2
Initial temperature T0 120 K Kömle et al. (2017)
Albedo a 0.05 Shi et al. (2016); Hu et al. (2017)
Porosity Φ 0.75 Pätzold et al. (2016)

Dust parameters
Density ρdust 2600 kg m−3 Pätzold et al. (2016)
Specific heat cp,dust 760 J kg−1 K−1 Shi et al. (2016); Kömle et al. (2017); Hu et al. (2017)
Thermal conductivity Kdust 2 × 10−2, 2 × 10−3 W m−1 K−1 Kömle et al. (2017); Hu et al. (2017)

Ice parameters
Ice density ρice 940 kg m−3 Pätzold et al. (2016)
Ice specific heat cp,ice 7.037 TK + 185.0 J kg−1 K−1 Ellsworth & Schubert (1983)
Thermal conductivity (*) Kice 567 KT W m−1 K−1 Klinger (1981)

Notes. (*) The thermal conductivity of the water ice is “corrected” for the porosity according to Eq. (17).

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