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Enabling ice sheet models to capture centennial-scale solid Earth feedback with relative ease and sufficient accuracy
Surendra Adhikari
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91011, USA
Lambert Caron
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91011, USA
Erik R. Ivins
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91011, USA
Holly K. Han
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91011, USA
Luc Houriez
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91011, USA
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Eric Larour
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91011, USA
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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.
We present an efficient approach for coupling ice sheet and solid Earth models, bringing...
