An Efficient Ice Sheet/Earth System Model Spin‐up Procedure for CESM2‐CISM2: Description, Evaluation, and Broader Applicability
Abstract Spinning up a highly complex, coupled Earth system model (ESM) is a time consuming and computationally demanding exercise. For models with interactive ice sheet components, this becomes a major challenge, as ice sheets are sensitive to bidirectional feedback processes and equilibrate over g...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:d7c6d0d9dba242e5aa21034401810ea5 2023-05-15T16:28:26+02:00 An Efficient Ice Sheet/Earth System Model Spin‐up Procedure for CESM2‐CISM2: Description, Evaluation, and Broader Applicability Marcus Lofverstrom Jeremy G. Fyke Katherine Thayer‐Calder Laura Muntjewerf Miren Vizcaino William J. Sacks William H. Lipscomb Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner Sarah L. Bradley 2020-08-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001984 https://doaj.org/article/d7c6d0d9dba242e5aa21034401810ea5 EN eng American Geophysical Union (AGU) https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001984 https://doaj.org/toc/1942-2466 1942-2466 doi:10.1029/2019MS001984 https://doaj.org/article/d7c6d0d9dba242e5aa21034401810ea5 Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Vol 12, Iss 8, Pp n/a-n/a (2020) Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) Coupled ice‐sheet/Earth system modeling Interactive ice sheets Spin‐up simulation Physical geography GB3-5030 Oceanography GC1-1581 article 2020 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001984 2022-12-31T07:30:20Z Abstract Spinning up a highly complex, coupled Earth system model (ESM) is a time consuming and computationally demanding exercise. For models with interactive ice sheet components, this becomes a major challenge, as ice sheets are sensitive to bidirectional feedback processes and equilibrate over glacial timescales of up to many millennia. This work describes and demonstrates a computationally tractable, iterative procedure for spinning up a contemporary, highly complex ESM that includes an interactive ice sheet component. The procedure alternates between a computationally expensive coupled configuration and a computationally cheaper configuration where the atmospheric component is replaced by a data model. By periodically regenerating atmospheric forcing consistent with the coupled system, the data atmosphere remains adequately constrained to ensure that the broader model state evolves realistically. The applicability of the method is demonstrated by spinning up the preindustrial climate in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2), coupled to the Community Ice Sheet Model Version 2 (CISM2) over Greenland. The equilibrium climate state is similar to the control climate from a coupled simulation with a prescribed Greenland ice sheet, indicating that the iterative procedure is consistent with a traditional spin‐up approach without interactive ice sheets. These results suggest that the iterative method presented here provides a faster and computationally cheaper method for spinning up a highly complex ESM, with or without interactive ice sheet components. The method described here has been used to develop the climate/ice sheet initial conditions for transient, ice sheet‐enabled simulations with CESM2‐CISM2 in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Ice Sheet Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Greenland Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 12 8 |
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Abstract Spinning up a highly complex, coupled Earth system model (ESM) is a time consuming and computationally demanding exercise. For models with interactive ice sheet components, this becomes a major challenge, as ice sheets are sensitive to bidirectional feedback processes and equilibrate over glacial timescales of up to many millennia. This work describes and demonstrates a computationally tractable, iterative procedure for spinning up a contemporary, highly complex ESM that includes an interactive ice sheet component. The procedure alternates between a computationally expensive coupled configuration and a computationally cheaper configuration where the atmospheric component is replaced by a data model. By periodically regenerating atmospheric forcing consistent with the coupled system, the data atmosphere remains adequately constrained to ensure that the broader model state evolves realistically. The applicability of the method is demonstrated by spinning up the preindustrial climate in the Community Earth System Model Version 2 (CESM2), coupled to the Community Ice Sheet Model Version 2 (CISM2) over Greenland. The equilibrium climate state is similar to the control climate from a coupled simulation with a prescribed Greenland ice sheet, indicating that the iterative procedure is consistent with a traditional spin‐up approach without interactive ice sheets. These results suggest that the iterative method presented here provides a faster and computationally cheaper method for spinning up a highly complex ESM, with or without interactive ice sheet components. The method described here has been used to develop the climate/ice sheet initial conditions for transient, ice sheet‐enabled simulations with CESM2‐CISM2 in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). |
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Marcus Lofverstrom Jeremy G. Fyke Katherine Thayer‐Calder Laura Muntjewerf Miren Vizcaino William J. Sacks William H. Lipscomb Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner Sarah L. Bradley |
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Marcus Lofverstrom Jeremy G. Fyke Katherine Thayer‐Calder Laura Muntjewerf Miren Vizcaino William J. Sacks William H. Lipscomb Bette L. Otto‐Bliesner Sarah L. Bradley |
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An Efficient Ice Sheet/Earth System Model Spin‐up Procedure for CESM2‐CISM2: Description, Evaluation, and Broader Applicability |
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An Efficient Ice Sheet/Earth System Model Spin‐up Procedure for CESM2‐CISM2: Description, Evaluation, and Broader Applicability |
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An Efficient Ice Sheet/Earth System Model Spin‐up Procedure for CESM2‐CISM2: Description, Evaluation, and Broader Applicability |
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An Efficient Ice Sheet/Earth System Model Spin‐up Procedure for CESM2‐CISM2: Description, Evaluation, and Broader Applicability |
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An Efficient Ice Sheet/Earth System Model Spin‐up Procedure for CESM2‐CISM2: Description, Evaluation, and Broader Applicability |
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efficient ice sheet/earth system model spin‐up procedure for cesm2‐cism2: description, evaluation, and broader applicability |
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