Ice Shelf-ocean Interactions in High-resolution Global Simulations [Poster]

Technical Report · Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2018

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1471320· OSTI ID:1471320

Petersen, Mark Roger ^[1]; Asay-Davis, Xylar Storm ^[1]; Ringler, Todd Darwin ^[1]; Hoffman, Matthew James ^[1]; Price, Stephen F. ^[1]; Van Roekel, Luke ^[1]; Wolfram, Jr., Phillip Justin ^[1]; Comeau, Darin Scott ^[1]; Wolfe, Jonathan David ^[1]

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1. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

The ability to include ocean cavities below ice shelves is a new feature of the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). This capability is critical for projecting Antarctica's potential future contributions to global sea level, which is one of E3SM's primary science drivers. E3SM is a coupled climate model with variableresolution components, which allows global simulations to include enhanced-resolution regions below ice shelves. The ocean, sea ice, and land ice components use the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) framework for unstructured horizontal meshes based on Voronoi Tessellations.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• DOE Contract Number: AC52-06NA25396
• OSTI ID: 1471320
• Report Number(s): LA-UR-18-28785
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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Earth Sciences