Report of the Third EISMINT Workshop on Model Intercomparison

• Main Author: Huybrechts, Philippe
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Antarctic; Greenland; Payne; Antarc*; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/6776/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/6776/1/Huy1998b.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.17327; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.17327.d001

The Third EISMINT Workshop on Model Intercomparison was held in the SunStarHotel in Grindelwald from Thursday September 27 th to Saturday September 29 th 1997.The principal objective of this meeting was to discuss the results of the final phase ofthe model intercomparison venture, where existing ice-flow models were comparedunder real-world situations and under much more challenging conditions than hadbeen the case during previous workshops held in Brussels in 1993 and Bremerhavenin 1994.A first planning meeting to prepare the Grindelwald workshop was organized i nBrussels on 29-30 March 1996. This planning meeting was attended by Drs. RichardHindmarsh, Doug MacAyeal, Catherine Ritz, Vincent Rommelaere, Tony Payne,Mikhail Verbitsky, and Philippe Huybrechts. We discussed which tests we consideredmost useful for the third phase of the venture, what suitable data would be available,and how the work could be practically organised. It was decided to define 5intercomparison topics (Greenland models; Antarctic models; Ice-shelf models;Thermomechanical effects; and Grounding-line treatments), each of which would betaken care of by a coordinator. The respective coordinators (C. Ritz, T. Payne, and P.Huybrechts) first performed the experiments they designed themselves, and thenproduced a written description. All was put on the web in September 1996(http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~phuybrec/eismint.html), and widely advertised, bothdirectly to previous participants, as on the E-mail forum of the InternationalGlaciological Society. These documents form part of this report.Participants could directly load the experimental descriptions and the required datasetsfrom the webpages set up in Brussels, with further links to sites in Grenoble andSouthampton. Results of the tests were sollicited before May 1 st 1997. During thesummer of 1997, the respective topic coordinators collated and plotted with somestudent help all results for presentation in Grindelwald.In total, 13 scientists participated in the various experiments, most of them ...