Assessment of sub-shelf melting parameterisations using the ocean–ice-sheet coupled model NEMO(v3.6)–Elmer/Ice(v8.3)

• Published in: Geoscientific Model Development
• Main Authors: Favier, Lionel, Jourdain, Nicolas C., Jenkins, Adrian, Merino, Nacho, Durand, Gaël, Gagliardini, Olivier, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Mathiot, Pierre
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-2255-2019; https://gmd.copernicus.org/articles/12/2255/2019/

Oceanic melting beneath ice shelves is the main driver of the current mass loss of the Antarctic ice sheet and is mostly parameterised in stand-alone ice-sheet modelling. Parameterisations are crude representations of reality, and their response to ocean warming has not been compared to 3-D ocean–ic...