Articles | Volume 14, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2545-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2545-2021
Development and technical paper
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07 May 2021
Development and technical paper |  | 07 May 2021

Assessment of numerical schemes for transient, finite-element ice flow models using ISSM v4.18

Thiago Dias dos Santos, Mathieu Morlighem, and Hélène Seroussi

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Numerical models are routinely used to understand the past and future behavior of ice sheets in response to climate evolution. As is always the case with numerical modeling, one needs to minimize biases and numerical artifacts due to the choice of numerical scheme employed in such models. Here, we assess different numerical schemes in time-dependent simulations of ice sheets. We also introduce a new parameterization for the driving stress, the force that drives the ice sheet flow.
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