Similitude simulations of marine ice-sheet instability

• Main Author: Feldmann, Johannes
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2019
• Subjects: File format; File name; File size; Ice dynamics; marine ice sheet instability; numerical modeling; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; scaling; similarity; similitude; SPP1158; SPP 1158; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Antarctic; Arctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Sea ice; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.908948; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.908948

Numerical simulations confirming theoretical results from scaling analysis of the shallow stress balance, i.e. the retreat time of a modeled 3D ice-sheet-shelf system with respect to variations in its characteristic properties matches the analytically derived time-scaling law Parameters a, b, c, d refer to the scaling parameters alpha (length scale), beta (vertical scale), gamma (friction scale), delta (accumulation scale), respectively.