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Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2541-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-2541-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 6
Research article
 | 
04 Jun 2021
Research article |  | 04 Jun 2021

A method for solving heat transfer with phase change in ice or soil that allows for large time steps while guaranteeing energy conservation

Niccolò Tubini, Stephan Gruber, and Riccardo Rigon

Data sets

OSF project Niccolò Tubini, Stephan Gruber, and Riccardo Rigon https://osf.io/8rdws/

Model code and software

FreeThaw1D - OMS project Niccolò Tubini, Stephan Gruber, and Riccardo Rigon https://github.com/GEOframeOMSProjects/OMS_FreeThaw1D

FreeThaw1D (Version v-0.98) Niccolò Tubini, Stephan Gruber, and Riccardo Rigon https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4017668

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Short summary
We present a new method to compute temperature changes with melting and freezing – a fundamental challenge in cryosphere research – extremely efficiently and with guaranteed correctness of the energy balance for any time step size. This is a key feature since the integration time step can then be chosen according to the timescale of the processes to be studied, from seconds to days.
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