Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1459-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1459-2020
Research article
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05 May 2020
Research article |  | 05 May 2020

Spatial probabilistic calibration of a high-resolution Amundsen Sea Embayment ice sheet model with satellite altimeter data

Andreas Wernecke, Tamsin L. Edwards, Isabel J. Nias, Philip B. Holden, and Neil R. Edwards

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Spatial probabilistic calibration for ice sheet model data A. Wernecke https://github.com/Andreas948

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Short summary
We investigate how the two-dimensional characteristics of ice thickness change from satellite measurements can be used to judge and refine a high-resolution ice sheet model of Antarctica. The uncertainty in 50-year model simulations for the currently most drastically changing part of Antarctica can be reduced by nearly 40 % compared to a simpler, non-spatial approach and nearly 90 % compared to the original spread in simulations.