ASIS:Main

Ice flow solver
Discuss the numerical implementation of solvers for:
 * Thickness.
 * Flow.
 * Temperature.
 * Basal hydrology.
 * Ancillary solvers (e.g. vertical velocity).

code development
Development strategy for various aspects of the project to be discussed here.
 * We intend to implement nested grids.
 * If we move the solvers to a set of libraries we'll need to define an API.
 * The glimmer ice sheet model may require further development in order to build in the higher order code from glam and to allow for nested grids.
 * A bit about debugging and development environments

surface mass balance

 * Day-degree model
 * Energy balance model

Ice-ocean interaction
Comments on plume model.

ESM/GCM coupling
The icesheet model will provide an interface for coupling to climate and earth systems models, probably making use of glimmer. In particular, the ice sheet model will be coupled to the Hadley Centre and Los Alamos GCMs.

Observational data


Descriptions of the data sets will be provided here, along with links to the data themselves.

At right is a plot from Anne showing velocity profiles down key Antarctic outlet glaciers. You can find a full sized version here.


 * Geometry
 * Geology

Boundary conditions

 * Surface air temperature
 * Precipitation

Other
As of July 28th I have provided Anne Le Brocq with a zip file which contains: surface, bedrock, shelf thickness and a ocean/ice mask at 5 km resolution for whole continent. Please read the README file included and make sure you are happy with the conditions of use.

Jonathan Bamber.

Meetings
Next meeting will be held in Durham during the week starting 27th October 2008.

Minutes of project meeting, 3rd June 2008, Cambridge

Minutes of project meeting, 19th March 2008, UCL

Wiki usage

 * using this wiki

Users

 * Who uses this wiki?