Simulating surface height and terminus position for marine outlet glaciers using a level set method with data assimilation
We implement a data assimilation framework for integrating ice surface and terminus position observations into a numerical ice-flow model. The model uses the well-known shallow shelf approximation (SSA) coupled to a level set method to capture ice motion and changes in the glacier geometry. The leve...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.2201.12235 2023-05-15T16:21:07+02:00 Simulating surface height and terminus position for marine outlet glaciers using a level set method with data assimilation Hossain, M. Alamgir Pimentel, Sam Stockie, John M. 2022 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.12235 https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12235 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph Machine Learning cs.LG Computational Physics physics.comp-ph FOS Physical sciences FOS Computer and information sciences 35M10, 65M06, 76D07, 86A40 Article CreativeWork article Preprint 2022 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.12235 2022-03-10T10:26:25Z We implement a data assimilation framework for integrating ice surface and terminus position observations into a numerical ice-flow model. The model uses the well-known shallow shelf approximation (SSA) coupled to a level set method to capture ice motion and changes in the glacier geometry. The level set method explicitly tracks the evolving ice-atmosphere and ice-ocean boundaries for a marine outlet glacier. We use an Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter to assimilate observations of ice surface elevation and lateral ice extent by updating the level set function that describes the ice interface. Numerical experiments on an idealized marine-terminating glacier demonstrate the effectiveness of our data assimilation approach for tracking seasonal and multi-year glacier advance and retreat cycles. The model is also applied to simulate Helheim Glacier, a major tidewater-terminating glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet that has experienced a recent history of rapid retreat. By assimilating observations from remotely-sensed surface elevation profiles we are able to more accurately track the migrating glacier terminus and glacier surface changes. These results support the use of data assimilation methodologies for obtaining more accurate predictions of short-term ice sheet dynamics. : 30 pages, 22 figures Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Tidewater DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Greenland |
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Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics physics.ao-ph Machine Learning cs.LG Computational Physics physics.comp-ph FOS Physical sciences FOS Computer and information sciences 35M10, 65M06, 76D07, 86A40 Hossain, M. Alamgir Pimentel, Sam Stockie, John M. Simulating surface height and terminus position for marine outlet glaciers using a level set method with data assimilation |
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We implement a data assimilation framework for integrating ice surface and terminus position observations into a numerical ice-flow model. The model uses the well-known shallow shelf approximation (SSA) coupled to a level set method to capture ice motion and changes in the glacier geometry. The level set method explicitly tracks the evolving ice-atmosphere and ice-ocean boundaries for a marine outlet glacier. We use an Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter to assimilate observations of ice surface elevation and lateral ice extent by updating the level set function that describes the ice interface. Numerical experiments on an idealized marine-terminating glacier demonstrate the effectiveness of our data assimilation approach for tracking seasonal and multi-year glacier advance and retreat cycles. The model is also applied to simulate Helheim Glacier, a major tidewater-terminating glacier of the Greenland Ice Sheet that has experienced a recent history of rapid retreat. By assimilating observations from remotely-sensed surface elevation profiles we are able to more accurately track the migrating glacier terminus and glacier surface changes. These results support the use of data assimilation methodologies for obtaining more accurate predictions of short-term ice sheet dynamics. : 30 pages, 22 figures |
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Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Hossain, M. Alamgir Pimentel, Sam Stockie, John M. |
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Hossain, M. Alamgir Pimentel, Sam Stockie, John M. |
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Simulating surface height and terminus position for marine outlet glaciers using a level set method with data assimilation |
title_short |
Simulating surface height and terminus position for marine outlet glaciers using a level set method with data assimilation |
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Simulating surface height and terminus position for marine outlet glaciers using a level set method with data assimilation |
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Simulating surface height and terminus position for marine outlet glaciers using a level set method with data assimilation |
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Simulating surface height and terminus position for marine outlet glaciers using a level set method with data assimilation |
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simulating surface height and terminus position for marine outlet glaciers using a level set method with data assimilation |
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2022 |
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https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.12235 https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12235 |
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glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Tidewater |
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glacier Greenland Ice Sheet Tidewater |
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