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Model description paper
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26 Jul 2021
Model description paper |
| 26 Jul 2021
| 26 Jul 2021
icepack: a new glacier flow modeling package in Python, version 1.0
Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Jessica A. Badgeley
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Andrew O. Hoffman
Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Ian R. Joughin
Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Reduced basal motion responsible for 50 years of declining ice velocities on Athabasca Glacier D. Polashenski et al. 10.1017/jog.2024.51
- Towards automatic finite-element methods for geodynamics via Firedrake D. Davies et al. 10.5194/gmd-15-5127-2022
- Marginal Detachment Zones: The Fracture Factories of Ice Shelves? C. Miele et al. 10.1029/2022JF006959
- Responses of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers to melt and sliding parameterizations I. Joughin et al. 10.5194/tc-18-2583-2024
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- fenics_ice 1.0: a framework for quantifying initialization uncertainty for time-dependent ice sheet models C. Koziol et al. 10.5194/gmd-14-5843-2021
- Consistent point data assimilation in Firedrake and Icepack R. Nixon-Hill et al. 10.5194/gmd-17-5369-2024
- A framework for time-dependent ice sheet uncertainty quantification, applied to three West Antarctic ice streams B. Recinos et al. 10.5194/tc-17-4241-2023
- Anisotropic metric-based mesh adaptation for ice flow modelling in Firedrake D. Dundovic et al. 10.5194/gmd-18-4023-2025
- Ocean-induced melt volume directly paces ice loss from Pine Island Glacier I. Joughin et al. 10.1126/sciadv.abi5738
- Implementation of an intermediate-complexity snow-physics scheme (ISBA-Explicit Snow) into a sea ice model (SI3): 1D thermodynamic coupling and validation T. Brivoal et al. 10.5194/gmd-18-6885-2025
- Simulation-based inference of surface accumulation and basal melt rates of an Antarctic ice shelf from isochronal layers G. Moss et al. 10.1017/jog.2025.13
- Numerical simulation of glacier terminus evolution using the dual action principle for momentum balance D. Shapero & G. de Diego 10.1017/jog.2024.92
- Ice shelf calving due to shear stresses: observing the response of Brunt Ice Shelf and Halloween Crack to iceberg calving using ICESat-2 laser altimetry, satellite imagery, and ice flow models A. Morris et al. 10.5194/tc-19-4303-2025
- Holocene hydrological evolution of subglacial Lake Snow Eagle, East Antarctica, implied by englacial radiostratigraphy S. Yan et al. 10.1017/jog.2025.15
- The role of near-terminus conditions in the ice-flow speed of Upernavik Isstrøm in northwest Greenland K. Voss et al. 10.1017/aog.2023.76
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Short summary
This paper describes a new software package called "icepack" for modeling the flow of ice sheets and glaciers. Glaciologists use tools like icepack to better understand how ice sheets flow, what role they have played in shaping Earth's climate, and how much sea level rise we can expect in the coming decades to centuries. The icepack package includes several innovations to help researchers describe and solve interesting glaciological problems and to experiment with the underlying model physics.
This paper describes a new software package called "icepack" for modeling the flow of ice sheets...
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