Output from model simulations of the ocean beneath Thwaites Glacier. ...

• Main Authors: Holland, Paul R, Bevan, Suzanne L, Luckman, Adrian J
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre 2023
• Subjects: "EARTH SCIENCE","OCEANS","OCEAN CHEMISTRY"; "EARTH SCIENCE","OCEANS","SEA ICE"; Amundsen sea; Ocean modelling; Ocean/ice interactions; Thwaites glacier; West Antarctic Ice Sheet; Amundsen Sea; Antarctic; Thwaites Glacier; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/30067e7b-93f8-4284-aa84-dab4eacd4520; https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01722

This is the output from high-resolution model simulations of ocean conditions and melting beneath the floating part of Thwaites Glacier. The model is designed to study how these conditions change as the geometry of Thwaites Glacier evolved from 2011-2022. There is one simulation using the geometry from each year during this period, derived from satellite observations. The simulations are repeated for different ocean model forcing conditions, as described in the associated paper. ... : This is output from the MITgcm ocean model, code checkpoint c68i. The simulations were run on the ARCHER2 supercomputing cluster. The output consists of ocean model fields (temperature, salinity, currents) and ice shelf melt rates. The model setup is on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7598677) ...