Project presentation - Non-Belspo EISMINT - European Ice
Sheet Model Intercomparison Project description EISMINT is an acronym for the European Ice Sheet Modeling INiTiative. Two phases were already published EISMINT-1 and EISMINT-2. The EISMINT 1 benchmark is the simplest set of test scenarios an ice sheet model has to pass. The ice sheet model is tested under both fixed and moving margin conditions. The ice sheets are considered isothermal, i.e. the flow law does not depend on the temperature field. However, the temperature field is fully calculated. This is a useful test for the thermal part of the ice sheet model. The EISMINT 2 follow directly from those of the first phase
of ice sheet model As such there is a test where simple mass balance and temperature forcing are combined with ice flow and thermal evolution. In general, the tests proposed attempts to simulate, many of the features ice sheet modellers encounter when they work on `real' ice sheets. In the EISMINT 3- exercise the focus lays on the so-called
higher-order models, i.e. models that incorporate further mechanical
effects, principally longitudinal stress gradients, or the
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Project team Project Coordinator: Dr. Frank Pattyn Involved partners: Partner 1: Tony PAYNE, |
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