Benchmarking the vertically integrated ice-sheet  model IMAU-ICE (version 2.0)

Berends, Constantijn J.; Goelzer, Heiko; Reerink, Thomas J.; Stap, Lennert B.; van de Wal, Roderik S. W.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-5667-2022

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Benchmarking the vertically integrated ice-sheet model IMAU-ICE (version 2.0)

Constantijn J. Berends, Heiko Goelzer, Thomas J. Reerink, Lennert B. Stap, and Roderik S. W. van de Wal

Model code and software

IMAU-ICE v2.0 archive version Constantijn J. Berends, Heiko Goelzer, Thomas J. Reerink, Lennert B. Stap, Roderik S. W. van de Wal https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6806679

Short summary

The rate at which marine ice sheets such as the West Antarctic ice sheet will retreat in a warming climate and ocean is still uncertain. Numerical ice-sheet models, which solve the physical equations that describe the way glaciers and ice sheets deform and flow, have been substantially improved in recent years. Here we present the results of several years of work on IMAU-ICE, an ice-sheet model of intermediate complexity, which can be used to study ice sheets of both the past and the future.