Enabling ice sheet models to capture centennial-scale solid Earth feedback with relative ease and sufficient accuracy

Adhikari, Surendra; Caron, Lambert; Ivins, Erik R.; Han, Holly K.; Houriez, Luc; Larour, Eric

doi:10.5194/tc-20-5041-2026

Articles | Volume 20, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-5041-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-20-5041-2026

© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 9

Research article

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08 Sep 2026

Research article |

| 08 Sep 2026

Enabling ice sheet models to capture centennial-scale solid Earth feedback with relative ease and sufficient accuracy

Surendra Adhikari, Lambert Caron, Erik R. Ivins, Holly K. Han, Luc Houriez, and Eric Larour

Data sets

Love numbers and Greens functions for a suite of radially-symmetric stratified Maxwell Earth Surendra Adhikari and Lambert Caron https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PVDKYI

Short summary

We present an efficient approach for coupling ice sheet and solid Earth models, bringing realistic gravitational and deformational processes into mainstream ice sheet modeling. Earth responses are encoded in precomputed Green’s functions and applied to modeled ice mass change through matrix multiplication. By removing a major computational and technical barrier, the approach could accelerate adoption within the Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project (ISMIP) to improve sea level projections.