Building a Next-Generation Community Ice Sheet Model
create a detailed plan (including commitments from individual researchers) for developing, testing, and applying a Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM). This model will be used to predict 21st century sea-level rise resulting from the retreat of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. CISM will be freel...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.466.8812 2023-05-15T13:49:19+02:00 Building a Next-Generation Community Ice Sheet Model Jesse Johnson The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2008 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.466.8812 http://oceans11.lanl.gov/trac/CISM/raw-attachment/wiki/WorkshopReport/CISM_Workshop_Report.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.466.8812 http://oceans11.lanl.gov/trac/CISM/raw-attachment/wiki/WorkshopReport/CISM_Workshop_Report.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://oceans11.lanl.gov/trac/CISM/raw-attachment/wiki/WorkshopReport/CISM_Workshop_Report.pdf text 2008 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T06:58:43Z create a detailed plan (including commitments from individual researchers) for developing, testing, and applying a Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM). This model will be used to predict 21st century sea-level rise resulting from the retreat of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. CISM will be freely available to the glaciology and climate modeling communities and will serve as the ice-sheet component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), a major contributor to the IPCC assessment reports. Because of the short time scale for including ice-sheet forecasts in the next IPCC assessment, participants prioritized model improvements according to their importance for sea-level prediction. The following improvements were deemed critical: • A higher-order flow model, with a unified treatment of vertical shear stresses and horizontal-plane (lateral shear and longitudinal normal) stresses • Improved models of basal sliding over hard and soft beds, including explicit treatment of surface, englacial, and subglacial hydrology • A well-validated parameterization of melting and refreezing beneath ice shelves • An accurate, semi-empirical law for iceberg calving Text Antarc* Antarctic Greenland Ice Sheet Ice Shelves Iceberg* Unknown Antarctic Greenland |
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create a detailed plan (including commitments from individual researchers) for developing, testing, and applying a Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM). This model will be used to predict 21st century sea-level rise resulting from the retreat of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. CISM will be freely available to the glaciology and climate modeling communities and will serve as the ice-sheet component of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM), a major contributor to the IPCC assessment reports. Because of the short time scale for including ice-sheet forecasts in the next IPCC assessment, participants prioritized model improvements according to their importance for sea-level prediction. The following improvements were deemed critical: • A higher-order flow model, with a unified treatment of vertical shear stresses and horizontal-plane (lateral shear and longitudinal normal) stresses • Improved models of basal sliding over hard and soft beds, including explicit treatment of surface, englacial, and subglacial hydrology • A well-validated parameterization of melting and refreezing beneath ice shelves • An accurate, semi-empirical law for iceberg calving |
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