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Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
Articles | Volume 14, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3111-2020
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17 Sep 2020
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A protocol for calculating basal melt rates in the ISMIP6 Antarctic ice sheet projections

Nicolas C. Jourdain, Xylar Asay-Davis, Tore Hattermann, Fiammetta Straneo, Hélène Seroussi, Christopher M. Little, and Sophie Nowicki

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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-3111-2020-supplement

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ismip/ismip6-antarctic-ocean-forcing: v1.0 Xylar Asay-Davis, Stickler Bot, and Nicolas C. Jourdain https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3997257

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To predict the future Antarctic contribution to sea level rise, we need to use ice sheet models. The Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for AR6 (ISMIP6) builds an ensemble of ice sheet projections constrained by atmosphere and ocean projections from the 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). In this work, we present and assess a method to derive ice shelf basal melting in ISMIP6 from the CMIP6 ocean outputs, and we give examples of projected melt rates.
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