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| Titel |
Glimmer-CISM: developments in community ice sheet modelling |
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Ian Rutt, Magnus Hagdorn, Jesse Johnson, William Lipscomb, Antony Payne, Stephen Price |
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EGU General Assembly 2010
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Artikel
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Englisch
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 12 (2010) |
| Datensatznummer |
250040031
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The recent publication of a description and evaluation of the Glimmer community ice
sheet model (Rutt et al., 2009) is an important milestone in the development of a
community-focused framework for ice sheet modelling. Now known as Glimmer-CISM
(from Glimmer, the Community Ice Sheet Model), the model is flexible and well-documented,
is written in standards-compliant Fortran 95, and adopts the widely-used CF metadata
standard for I/O. Release under the GNU General Public License (GPL) means that the model
is available to all interested researchers, and the level of verification undertaken means that a
high degree of trust can be placed in the output. Furthermore, provision of a flexible coupling
module (GLINT) has already facilitated coupling to the Hadley Centre FAMOUS climate
model, with coupling to HadCM3 in an advanced state. The adoption of Glimmer-CISM as
the land ice component of the US Community Climate System Model (CCSM) has provided
a significant boost to the future of the model, as has the funding of the EU FP7 project
Ice2Sea.
We present an overview of recent developments to Glimmer-CISM, including the
provision of models of higher-order stress balance. We discuss planned future developments,
and the new arrangements we are making to facilitate community involvement and
international collaboration. Glimmer-CISM is a joint U.S./U.K. effort with support primarily
from DOE, NSF, NASA, and NERC.
Rutt, I.C., M. Hagdorn, N.R.J. Hulton, A.J. Payne (2009) The Glimmer Community Ice
Sheet Model, J. Geophys. Res., 114, F02004 |
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