Design and results of the ice sheet model initialisation experiments initMIP-Greenland: an ISMIP6 intercomparison.

ABSTRACT: Earlier large-scale Greenland ice sheet sea-level projections (e.g., those run during the ice2sea and SeaRISE initiatives) have shown that ice sheet initial conditions have a large effect on the projections and give rise to important uncertainties. The goal of the initMIP-Greenland intercomparison exercise is to compare, evaluate and improve the initialisation techniques used in the ice sheet modelling community and to estimate the associated uncertainties in modelled mass changes. initMIP-Greenland is the first in a series of ice sheet model intercomparison activities within ISMIP6 (the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP6), which is the primary activity within the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project - phase 6 (CMIP6) focusing on the ice sheets. Two experiments for the larg

SUBMITTER: Goelzer H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7365265 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature