Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-319-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-319-2017
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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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.