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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-387-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-387-2024
Research article
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26 Jan 2024
Research article |  | 26 Jan 2024

Evaluating different geothermal heat-flow maps as basal boundary conditions during spin-up of the Greenland ice sheet

Tong Zhang, William Colgan, Agnes Wansing, Anja Løkkegaard, Gunter Leguy, William H. Lipscomb, and Cunde Xiao

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The geothermal heat flux determines how much heat enters from beneath the ice sheet, and thus impacts the temperature and the flow of the ice sheet. In this study we investigate how much geothermal heat flux impacts the initialization of the Greenland ice sheet. We use the Community Ice Sheet Model with two different initialization methods. We find a non-trivial influence of the choice of heat flow boundary conditions on the ice sheet initializations for further designs of ice sheet modeling.