Ice Shelf-ocean Interactions in High-resolution Global Simulations [Poster]

• Main Authors: Petersen, Mark Roger, Asay-Davis, Xylar Storm, Ringler, Todd Darwin, Hoffman, Matthew James, Price, Stephen F., Van Roekel, Luke, Wolfram, Jr., Phillip Justin, Comeau, Darin Scott, Wolfe, Jonathan David
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Antarc*; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1471320; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1471320; https://doi.org/10.2172/1471320

The ability to include ocean cavities below ice shelves is a new feature of the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). This capability is critical for projecting Antarctica's potential future contributions to global sea level, which is one of E3SM's primary science drivers. E3SM is a coupled climate model with variableresolution components, which allows global simulations to include enhanced-resolution regions below ice shelves. The ocean, sea ice, and land ice components use the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) framework for unstructured horizontal meshes based on Voronoi Tessellations.