Assessment of sub-shelf melting parameterisations using the ocean-ice-sheet coupled model NEMO(v3.6)-Elmer/Ice(v8.3)

• Published in: Geoscientific Model Development
• Main Authors: Favier, Lionel, Jourdain, Nicolas, Jenkins, Adrian, Merino, Nacho, Durand, Gaël, Gagliardini, Olivier, Gillet-Chaulet, Fabien, Mathiot, Pierre
• Other Authors: Laboratoire sols, solides, structures - risques Grenoble (3SR ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 ), Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement (IGE), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 ), British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Université Grenoble Alpes 2016-2019 (UGA 2016-2019 ), United Kingdom Met Office Exeter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean; Atmosphere; [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces; environment; Antarctic; Pine Island Glacier; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-02401404; https://hal.science/hal-02401404/document; https://hal.science/hal-02401404/file/favier_GMD_2019.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-2255-2019

International audience Oceanic melting beneath ice shelves is the main driver of the current mass loss of the Antarctic ice sheet and is mostly parameterised in stand-alone ice-sheet modelling. Parameterisations are crude representations of reality, and their response to ocean warming has not been c...