Recent Progress in Greenland Ice Sheet Modelling. [PDF]
Curr Clim Change Rep, 2017 This paper reviews the recent literature on numerical modelling of the dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet with the goal of providing an overview of advancements and to highlight important directions of future research. In particular, the review is focused on large-scale modelling of the ice sheet, including future projections, model parameterisations,
Goelzer H +3 more
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The paradigm shift in Antarctic ice sheet modelling. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2018 The Antarctic ice sheet is one of the largest potential contributors to future sea level rise. Predicting its future behaviour using physically-based ice sheet models has been a bottleneck for the past decades, but major advances are ongoing.
Pattyn F.
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Marine ice-sheet experiments with the Community Ice Sheet Model [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2020 Abstract. Ice sheet models differ in their numerical treatment of dynamical processes. Simulations of marine-based ice are sensitive to the choice of Stokes flow approximation and basal friction law, and to the treatment of stresses and melt rates near the grounding line.
Gunter R. Leguy +2 more
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ICESHEET 1.0: a program to produce paleo-ice sheet reconstructions with minimal assumptions [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2016 We describe a program that produces paleo-ice sheet reconstructions using an assumption of steady-state, perfectly plastic ice flow behaviour. It incorporates three input parameters: ice margin, basal shear stress and basal topography.
E. J. Gowan +6 more
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An improved Antarctic dataset for high resolution numerical ice sheet models (ALBMAP v1) [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2010 The dataset described in this paper (ALBMAP) has been created for the purposes of high-resolution numerical ice sheet modelling of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. It brings together data on the ice sheet configuration (e.g.
A. M. Le Brocq, A. J. Payne, A. Vieli
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Annals of Glaciology, 1984 This paper presents a review of the ice-sheet mechanics behind the modeling work of Pleistocene ice sheets driven by astronomical (Milankovitch) forcing.
J. Weertman, G. E. Birchfield
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Modelling the Antarctic Ice Sheet across the mid-Pleistocene transition – implications for Oldest Ice [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2019 The international endeavour to retrieve a continuous ice core, which spans the middle Pleistocene climate transition ca. 1.2–0.9 Myr ago, encompasses a multitude of field and model-based pre-site surveys. We expand on the current efforts to locate
J. Sutter +9 more
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Pliocene Ice Sheet Modelling Intercomparison Project (PLISMIP) – experimental design [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2012 During the mid-Pliocene warm period (3.264 to 3.025 million years ago), global mean temperature was similar to that predicted for the next century and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were slightly higher than today.
A. M. Dolan +4 more
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Data assimilation and prognostic whole ice sheet modelling with the variationally derived, higher order, open source, and fully parallel ice sheet model VarGlaS [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2013 We introduce a novel, higher order, finite element ice sheet model called VarGlaS (Variational Glacier Simulator), which is built on the finite element framework FEniCS.
D. J. Brinkerhoff, J. V. Johnson
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An ice sheet model validation framework for the Greenland ice sheet [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2016 Abstract. We propose a new ice sheet model validation framework – the Cryospheric Model Comparison Tool (CmCt) – that takes advantage of ice sheet altimetry and gravimetry observations collected over the past several decades and is applied here to modeling of the Greenland ice sheet.
Stephen F. Price +17 more
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