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    Quote Originally Posted by worldbuilding pasta View Post
    Regarding the test you ran with Antarctica, there should indeed be a significant difference there--and you'd be surprised how warm polar regions can get without ice thanks to constant sunlight in summer.
    That it was warmer made sense, but the magnitude seemed off. As a followup here I removed the ice from Greenland and saw qualitatively similar but somewhat less crazy warming of Greenland / Siberia / northern Canada. My guess is that's due to the moderating effect of water near the pole, though removing half the land from an ice-free Antarctica still gives temperatures nearing 30 C in the summer.

    Ice-free Greenland
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    As a point of comparison, I'd actually be really curious to know what ExoPlaSim predicts for the temperature of your southern continent in the summer to see how that compares to the >40 C predicted by Clima-sim. Even with its systematic issues, I'd be much more inclined to trust the output from ExoPlaSim given how much more explicitly it treats things.
    Last edited by MrBragg; 05-08-2022 at 10:23 PM.

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