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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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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.
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