BISMG:RupertG

Rupert Gladstone's wiki page

=Overview=

Working on 1d adaptive mesh ice sheet modelling with the aim of overcoming model inconsistencies in simulating grounding line migration. Also on development and testing of parameterisations for representing grounding line position at sub grid resolution.

Investigating southern ocean warming in output from existing models, including HadCM3 and OCCAM. Further development of coupling code for coupled climate/ice sheet simulations.

Funded on NCEO and JCRP.

=Weekly updates=

Fri 20th November

did something else...

Fri 13th November

Set up this wiki, with Gethin's help.

Setting up LHS (latin hypercube sampling) ensemble of experiments to test the new GLPs (grounding line parameterisations) over accumulation/bedrock slope/drag coefficient/rate factor space. Will be run on Blue Crystal, something like 400 simulations at 2km or 4km resolution.

Went to Met Office (twice!). Learnt a bit about MONSOON, new computing facility for joint NERC/Met office ventures. They are keen for us to carry out coupled climate/ice sheet simulations on the machine. Goes live 1st December, but is expected to have a few glitches to be ironed out. Has 60Tb fast disk attached, plus 100Tb slow disk (to be increased). Sits effectively outside the Met office network, but is connected to MASS-R (their storage system for model output). Is connected to JANET, users can ssh in from restricted IP addresses (I've given them the Bristol IP address range so we should be ok). There is a dedicated post processing machine with not much more than IDL on it at the moment. We should shout if we need other data processing/analysis packages.