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Methods for assessment of models
| 
17 Jan 2017
Methods for assessment of models |
| 17 Jan 2017
An ice sheet model validation framework for the Greenland ice sheet
Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, MS B216, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Matthew J. Hoffman
Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, MS B216, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Jennifer A. Bonin
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Ian M. Howat
School of Earth Sciences and Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Thomas Neumann
Cryospheric Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Jack Saba
Cryospheric Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Science, Systems, and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD 20706, USA
Irina Tezaur
Extreme Scale Data Science and Analytics Department, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 969, MS 9159, Livermore, CA 94551, USA
Jeffrey Guerber
Cryospheric Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Sigma Space Corp., Lanham, MD 20706, USA
Don P. Chambers
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Katherine J. Evans
Computational Earth Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, MS 6301, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Joseph H. Kennedy
Computational Earth Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, MS 6301, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Jan Lenaerts
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
William H. Lipscomb
Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, MS B216, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
Mauro Perego
Computational Mathematics Department, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, MS 1320, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
Andrew G. Salinger
Computational Mathematics Department, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, MS 1320, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
Raymond S. Tuminaro
Computational Mathematics Department, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, MS 1320, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA
Michiel R. van den Broeke
Institute for Marine and Atmospheric research Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Sophie M. J. Nowicki
Cryospheric Sciences, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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Short summary
We introduce the Cryospheric Model Comparison Tool (CmCt) and propose qualitative and quantitative metrics for evaluating ice sheet model simulations against observations. Greenland simulations using the Community Ice Sheet Model are compared to gravimetry and altimetry observations from 2003 to 2013. We show that the CmCt can be used to score simulations of increasing complexity relative to observations of dynamic change in Greenland over the past decade.
We introduce the Cryospheric Model Comparison Tool (CmCt) and propose qualitative and...
