MimiBRICK.jl: A Julia package for the BRICK model for sea-level change in the Mimi integrated modeling framework

• Main Authors: Wong, Tony E., Rennels, Lisa, Srikrishnan, Vivek, Bakker, Alexander, Keller, Klaus, Anthoff, David
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: RIT Digital Institutional Repository 2022
• Subjects: sea level; climate; costal; model coupling; Antarc*; Antarctic; Greenland
• Online Access: https://repository.rit.edu/article/2126; https://repository.rit.edu/context/article/article/3175/viewcontent/Wong_etal_2022_BRICK_JOSS.pdf

BRICK is a semi-empirical model for global and local mean sea-level change (Wong et al., 2017). The core model includes component sub-models for the major contributors to global mean sea-level change - glaciers and ice caps, thermal expansion, land water storage, and the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. The resulting global mean sea levels can be downscaled via a data set that represents the “fingerprint†of each sea-level component on local mean sea level (Slangen et al., 2014). In this way, BRICK provides information about local sea-level changes, including characterizations of key uncertainties. BRICK is flexible and efficient enough to resolve high-risk upper tails of probability distributions. BRICK has been used in a number of recent assessments, including for examining the impacts of sea-level rise as a constraint on estimates of climate sensitivity (Vega-Westhoff et al., 2018), estimates of deep uncertainty in coastal flood risk (Ruckert et al., 2019), and most recently was noted in comparisons of sea-level projections in the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC (Fox-Kemper et al., 2021).