Articles | Volume 13, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1845-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1845-2020
Development and technical paper
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09 Apr 2020
Development and technical paper |  | 09 Apr 2020

SICOPOLIS-AD v1: an open-source adjoint modeling framework for ice sheet simulation enabled by the algorithmic differentiation tool OpenAD

Liz C. Logan, Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan, Ralf Greve, and Patrick Heimbach

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A new capability has been developed for the ice sheet model SICOPOLIS (SImulation COde for POLythermal Ice Sheets) that enables the generation of derivative code, such as tangent linear or adjoint models, by means of algorithmic differentiation. It relies on the source transformation algorithmic (AD) differentiation tool OpenAD. The reverse mode of AD provides the adjoint model, SICOPOLIS-AD, which may be applied for comprehensive sensitivity analyses as well as gradient-based optimization.
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