Marine ice sheet model performance depends on basal sliding physics and sub-shelf melting

Gladstone, Rupert Michael; Warner, Roland Charles; Galton-Fenzi, Benjamin Keith; Gagliardini, Olivier; Zwinger, Thomas; Greve, Ralf

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-319-2017

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-319-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-319-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 1

Research article

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31 Jan 2017

Research article |

| 31 Jan 2017

Marine ice sheet model performance depends on basal sliding physics and sub-shelf melting

Rupert Michael Gladstone, Roland Charles Warner, Benjamin Keith Galton-Fenzi, Olivier Gagliardini, Thomas Zwinger, and Ralf Greve

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Victor Tsai, 08 Aug 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Tsai', Rupert Gladstone, 11 Nov 2016
RC2: 'Review', Jeremy Bassis, 11 Aug 2016
- AC2: 'Reply to Bassis', Rupert Gladstone, 11 Nov 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (11 Nov 2016) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (17 Nov 2016) by Frank Pattyn

RR by Victor Tsai (28 Dec 2016)

ED: Publish as is (03 Jan 2017) by Frank Pattyn

Short summary

Computer models are used to simulate the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets. It has been found that such models are required to be run at very high resolution (which means high computational expense) in order to accurately represent the evolution of marine ice sheets (ice sheets resting on bedrock below sea level), in certain situations which depend on sub-glacial physical processes.