Results of the Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project, MISMIP

Pattyn, F.; Schoof, C.; Perichon, L.; Hindmarsh, R.C.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1633-2416; Bueler, E.; de Fleurian, B.; Durand, G.; Gagliardini, O.; Gladstone, R.; Goldberg, D.; Gudmundsson, G.H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4236-5369; Huybrechts, P.; Lee, V.; Nick, F.M.; Payne, A.J.; Pollard, D.; Rybak, O.; Saito, F.; Vieli, A.. 2012 Results of the Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project, MISMIP. The Cryosphere, 6 (3). 573-588. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-573-2012

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Abstract/Summary

Predictions of marine ice-sheet behaviour require models that are able to robustly simulate grounding line migration. We present results of an intercomparison exercise for marine ice-sheet models. Verification is effected by comparison with approximate analytical solutions for flux across the grounding line using simplified geometrical configurations (no lateral variations, no effects of lateral buttressing). Unique steady state grounding line positions exist for ice sheets on a downward sloping bed, while hysteresis occurs across an overdeepened bed, and stable steady state grounding line positions only occur on the downward-sloping sections. Models based on the shallow ice approximation, which does not resolve extensional stresses, do not reproduce the approximate analytical results unless appropriate parameterizations for ice flux are imposed at the grounding line. For extensional-stress resolving “shelfy stream” models, differences between model results were mainly due to the choice of spatial discretization. Moving grid methods were found to be the most accurate at capturing grounding line evolution, since they track the grounding line explicitly. Adaptive mesh refinement can further improve accuracy, including fixed grid models that generally perform poorly at coarse resolution. Fixed grid models, with nested grid representations of the grounding line, are able to generate accurate steady state positions, but can be inaccurate over transients. Only one full-Stokes model was included in the intercomparison, and consequently the accuracy of shelfy stream models as approximations of full-Stokes models remains to be determined in detail, especially during transients.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-573-2012
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > EU:Ice2Sea BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Ice Sheets
ISSN:	1994-0416
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open access article made available under a CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution license.
Date made live:	03 Jul 2012 11:10 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/16549

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-573-2012

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > EU:Ice2Sea
BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Ice Sheets

ISSN:

1994-0416

Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:

Open access article made available under a CC-BY Creative Commons Attribution license.

Date made live:

03 Jul 2012 11:10 +0 (UTC)