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Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
The Cryosphere, 10, 1477–1494, 2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1477-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
The Cryosphere, 10, 1477–1494, 2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1477-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
Research article
13 Jul 2016
Research article | 13 Jul 2016

Inversion of geothermal heat flux in a thermomechanically coupled nonlinear Stokes ice sheet model

Hongyu Zhu et al.

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We study how well the basal geothermal heat flux can be inferred from surface velocity observations using a thermomechanically coupled nonlinear Stokes ice sheet model. The prospects and limitations of this inversion is studied in two and three dimensional model problems. We also argue that a one-way coupled approach for the adjoint equations motivated by staggered solvers for forward multiphysics problems can lead to an incorrect gradient and premature termination of the optimization iteration.
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