Articles | Volume 18, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-8203-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-8203-2025
Model description paper
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05 Nov 2025
Model description paper |  | 05 Nov 2025

age_flow_line-1.0: a fast and accurate numerical age model for a pseudo-steady flow tube of an ice sheet

Frédéric Parrenin, Ailsa Chung, and Carlos Martín

Model code and software

parrenin/age_flow_line: Version of age_flow_line as accepted in GMD Frédéric Parrenin https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.16920689

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Short summary
We developed a new numerical age solver for a pseudo-steady flow tube of an ice sheet. Thanks to a new coordinate system which tracks the trajectories and a change of the time variable, our scheme combines the advantages of Eulerian and Lagrangian schemes: no numerical diffusion and no dilution of tracers. Our model is so fast that it is easy to optimize its parameters. Our model is made available to the ice sheet community as an easy to use open-source software coded in python.
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