Description and evaluation of the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM) v2.1

Lipscomb, William H.; Price, Stephen F.; Hoffman, Matthew J.; Leguy, Gunter R.; Bennett, Andrew R.; Bradley, Sarah L.; Evans, Katherine J.; Fyke, Jeremy G.; Kennedy, Joseph H.; Perego, Mauro; Ranken, Douglas M.; Sacks, William J.; Salinger, Andrew G.; Vargo, Lauren J.; Worley, Patrick H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-387-2019

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-387-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-387-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Model description paper

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22 Jan 2019

Model description paper |

| 22 Jan 2019

Description and evaluation of the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM) v2.1

William H. Lipscomb, Stephen F. Price, Matthew J. Hoffman, Gunter R. Leguy, Andrew R. Bennett, Sarah L. Bradley, Katherine J. Evans, Jeremy G. Fyke, Joseph H. Kennedy, Mauro Perego, Douglas M. Ranken, William J. Sacks, Andrew G. Salinger, Lauren J. Vargo, and Patrick H. Worley

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RC1: 'Review of Description and Evaluation of the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM) v2.1', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Sep 2018
RC2: 'Interactive comment on “Description and Evaluation of the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM) v2.1” by William H. Lipscomb et al.', Johannes Sutter, 22 Oct 2018
AC1: 'Author reply to reviewer comments', William Lipscomb, 05 Dec 2018

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AR by William Lipscomb on behalf of the Authors (05 Jan 2019)

Short summary

This paper describes the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM) version 2.1. CISM solves equations for ice flow, heat conduction, surface melting, and other processes such as basal sliding and iceberg calving. It can be used for ice-sheet-only simulations or as the ice sheet component of the Community Earth System Model. Model solutions have been verified for standard test problems. CISM can efficiently simulate the whole Greenland ice sheet, with results that are broadly consistent with observations.