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Benchmark experiments for higher-order and full-Stokes ice sheet models (ISMIP–HOM)
1Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP160/03, Av. F. Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
2Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Universitaetstrasse 16, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
3Institute for Geophysics, University of Muenster, Corrensstrasse 24, 48149 Muenster, Germany
4Vakgroep Geografie, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
5Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE), CNRS, UJF-Grenoble I, BP 96, 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères Cedex, France
6Physical Science Division, British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
7Centre for Glaciology, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion, SY23 3DP, UK
8Department of Computer Science, Social Science Building Room 417, Univ. of Montana, Missoula MT, 59812-5256, USA
9Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
10Bristol Glaciology Centre, School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK
11Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, 2217 Earth-Engineering Sciences Bldg., Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
12Frontier Res. Center for Global Change, 3173-25 Showamachi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan
13Department of Geophysics, Charles University Prague, V. Holešovičkách 2, 18000 Praha 8, Czech Republic
14Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Nishi-8, Kita-19, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
15CSC-Scientific Computing Ltd., Keilaranta 14, P.O. Box 405, 02101 Espoo, Finland
Abstract. We present the results of the first ice sheet model intercomparison project for higher-order and full-Stokes ice sheet models. These models are compared and verified in a series of six experiments of which one has an analytical solution obtained from a perturbation analysis. The experiments are applied to both 2-D and 3-D geometries; five experiments are steady-state diagnostic, and one has a time-dependent prognostic solution. All participating models give results that are in close agreement. A clear distinction can be made between higher-order models and those that solve the full system of equations. The full-Stokes models show a much smaller spread, hence are in better agreement with one another and with the analytical solution.
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Citation: Pattyn, F., Perichon, L., Aschwanden, A., Breuer, B., de Smedt, B., Gagliardini, O., Gudmundsson, G. H., Hindmarsh, R. C. A., Hubbard, A., Johnson, J. V., Kleiner, T., Konovalov, Y., Martin, C., Payne, A. J., Pollard, D., Price, S., Rückamp, M., Saito, F., Souček, O., Sugiyama, S., and Zwinger, T.: Benchmark experiments for higher-order and full-Stokes ice sheet models (ISMIP–HOM), The Cryosphere, 2, 95-108, 2008. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager
