International CLIVAR Project Office
National Oceanography Centre
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Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
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Email: icpo@noc.soton.ac.uk
JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modelling
Ice Sheets and Climate
Coupled Models of Ice Sheets and Climate
Existing continental ice sheet models do not include ice-streams or ice-shelves, and the coupling is done using a degree-day scheme for calculation of ice-sheet surface mass balance.
| Ice sheet modeller (model) | Climate model (coupling by) |
| Huybrechts | HadCM3 (Ridley) |
| Huybrechts | LMD-CLIO (Fichefet) |
| Huybrechts | ECBILT-CLIO (Belgian ASTER Project) |
| Payne (Glimmer) | FAMOUS/HadCM3 (Gregory/Ridley) |
| Payne (Glimmer) | CSM (Lipscomb) |
| Greve (Sicopolis) | CLIMBER-2 (Calov) |
| Ritz (Gremilins) | CLIMBER-2 (Kageyama) |
| Marshall and Clark | UVic (Weaver) |
| Pollard and DeConto | GENESIS |
From J. Gregory, WGCM Meeting, Hamburg, 2007
References from past ice sheet meetings
-Toward a New Generation of Ice Sheet Models - GFDL, USA, 2007
Little, C., et al., 2007: Towards a new generation of ice sheet models. EOS Trans, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 88, 578-579.
-Workshop on Improving Ice Sheet Models, SCAR - St. Petersburgh, Russia, 2008
A report is in progress. An earlier relevant report for SCAR is available here:
A Need For More Realistic Ice-Sheet Models, SCAR Report No. 30, 2007.
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