Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-247-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-247-2017
Research article
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27 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 27 Jan 2017

Comparison of hybrid schemes for the combination of shallow approximations in numerical simulations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Jorge Bernales, Irina Rogozhina, Ralf Greve, and Maik Thomas

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Ice sheet model SICOPOLIS R. Greve http://www.sicopolis.net

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Short summary
This study offers a hard test to the models commonly used to simulate an ice sheet evolution over multimillenial timescales. Using an example of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, we evaluate the performance of such models against observations and highlight a strong impact of different approaches towards modeling rapidly flowing ice sectors. In particular, our results show that inferences of previous studies may need significant adjustments to be adopted by a different type of ice sheet models.