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Research article
| 
19 Apr 2018
Research article |
| 19 Apr 2018
| 19 Apr 2018
Design and results of the ice sheet model initialisation experiments initMIP-Greenland: an ISMIP6 intercomparison
Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research
(IMAU), Utrecht, the Netherlands
Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels,
Belgium
Sophie Nowicki
NASA GSFC, Cryospheric Sciences Branch, Greenbelt, USA
Tamsin Edwards
School of Environment, Earth & Ecosystem Sciences, The Open
University, Milton Keynes, UK
now at: King's College London, Department of Geography, London, UK
Matthew Beckley
NASA GSFC, Cryospheric Sciences Branch, Greenbelt, USA
Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Atmosphere Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
Andy Aschwanden
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA
Reinhard Calov
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Olivier Gagliardini
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, 38000 Grenoble,
France
Fabien Gillet-Chaulet
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE, 38000 Grenoble,
France
Nicholas R. Golledge
Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington,
Wellington, New Zealand
Jonathan Gregory
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK
Ralf Greve
Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo,
Japan
Angelika Humbert
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven,
Germany
University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Philippe Huybrechts
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Joseph H. Kennedy
Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, USA
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA
Eric Larour
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, USA
William H. Lipscomb
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA
Sébastien Le clec'h
LSCE/IPSL, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement,
CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Victoria Lee
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Mathieu Morlighem
University of California Irvine, Irvine, USA
Frank Pattyn
Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels,
Belgium
Antony J. Payne
University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Christian Rodehacke
Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven,
Germany
Martin Rückamp
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven,
Germany
Fuyuki Saito
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Nicole Schlegel
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, USA
Helene Seroussi
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, USA
Andrew Shepherd
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Sainan Sun
Laboratoire de Glaciologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels,
Belgium
Roderik van de Wal
Utrecht University, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research
(IMAU), Utrecht, the Netherlands
Florian A. Ziemen
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Data sets
Model output and forcing data H. Goelzer https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1173088
Short summary
We have compared a wide spectrum of different initialisation techniques used in the ice sheet modelling community to define the modelled present-day Greenland ice sheet state as a starting point for physically based future-sea-level-change projections. Compared to earlier community-wide comparisons, we find better agreement across different models, which implies overall improvement of our understanding of what is needed to produce such initial states.
We have compared a wide spectrum of different initialisation techniques used in the ice sheet...
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