COSIPY v1.3 – an open-source coupled snowpack and ice surface energy and mass balance model

Sauter, Tobias; Arndt, Anselm; Schneider, Christoph

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5645-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5645-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-5645-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

Model description paper

|

18 Nov 2020

Model description paper |

| 18 Nov 2020

COSIPY v1.3 – an open-source coupled snowpack and ice surface energy and mass balance model

Tobias Sauter, Anselm Arndt, and Christoph Schneider

Model code and software

COSIPY v1.3 Tobias Sauter, Anselm Arndt, and Christoph Schneider https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3902191

cryotools/cosipy: COSIPY – An open-source coupled snowpack and ice surface energy and mass balance model Tobias Sauter and Anselm Arndt https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2579668

Unidata/netcdf4-python: version 1.5.1.2 release Jeff Whitaker, Constantine Khrulev, David Huard, Christoph Paulik, Stephan Hoyer, and Bruno P. Kinoshita https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2669496

Short summary

Glacial changes play a key role from a socioeconomic, political, and scientific point of view. Here, we present the open-source coupled snowpack and ice surface energy and mass balance model, which provides a lean, flexible, and user-friendly framework for modeling distributed snow and glacier mass changes. The model provides a suitable platform for sensitivity, detection, and attribution analyses for glacier changes and a tool for quantifying inherent uncertainties.