Implementation and Initial Evaluation of the Glimmer Community Ice Sheet Model in the Community Earth System Model
Abstract
The Glimmer Community Ice Sheet Model (Glimmer-CISM) has been implemented in the Community Earth System Model (CESM). Glimmer-CISM is forced by a surface mass balance (SMB) computed in multiple elevation classes in the CESM land model and downscaled to the ice sheet grid. Ice sheet evolution is governed by the shallow-ice approximation with thermomechanical coupling and basal sliding. This paper describes and evaluates the initial model implementation for the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS). The ice sheet model was spun up using the SMB from a coupled CESM simulation with preindustrial forcing. The model's sensitivity to three key ice sheet parameters was explored by running an ensemble of 100 GIS simulations to quasi equilibrium and ranking each simulation based on multiple diagnostics. With reasonable parameter choices, the steady-state GIS geometry is broadly consistent with observations. The simulated ice sheet is too thick and extensive, however, in some marginal regions where the SMB is anomalously positive. The top-ranking simulations were continued using surface forcing from CESM simulations of the twentieth century (1850–2005) and twenty-first century (2005–2100, with RCP8.5 forcing). In these simulations the GIS loses mass, with a resulting global-mean sea level rise of 16 mm during 1850–2005 and 60 mm duringmore »
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- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Utrecht Univ., Utrecht (Netherlands). Inst. for Marine and Atmospheric Research; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Geography
- National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF); UT-Battelle LLC/ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory (BAPL), West Mifflin, PA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
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- 1565231
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- AC05-00OR22725; AC52-06NA25396
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- Journal Name:
- Journal of Climate
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- Journal Volume: 26; Journal Issue: 19; Journal ID: ISSN 0894-8755
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- American Meteorological Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences; Arctic; Ice sheets; Climate models; Coupled models
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Lipscomb, William H., Fyke, Jeremy G., Vizcaíno, Miren, Sacks, William J., Wolfe, Jon, Vertenstein, Mariana, Craig, Anthony, Kluzek, Erik, and Lawrence, David M. Implementation and Initial Evaluation of the Glimmer Community Ice Sheet Model in the Community Earth System Model. United States: N. p., 2013.
Web. doi:10.1175/jcli-d-12-00557.1.
Lipscomb, William H., Fyke, Jeremy G., Vizcaíno, Miren, Sacks, William J., Wolfe, Jon, Vertenstein, Mariana, Craig, Anthony, Kluzek, Erik, & Lawrence, David M. Implementation and Initial Evaluation of the Glimmer Community Ice Sheet Model in the Community Earth System Model. United States. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-12-00557.1
Lipscomb, William H., Fyke, Jeremy G., Vizcaíno, Miren, Sacks, William J., Wolfe, Jon, Vertenstein, Mariana, Craig, Anthony, Kluzek, Erik, and Lawrence, David M. Tue .
"Implementation and Initial Evaluation of the Glimmer Community Ice Sheet Model in the Community Earth System Model". United States. https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-12-00557.1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1565231.
@article{osti_1565231,
title = {Implementation and Initial Evaluation of the Glimmer Community Ice Sheet Model in the Community Earth System Model},
author = {Lipscomb, William H. and Fyke, Jeremy G. and Vizcaíno, Miren and Sacks, William J. and Wolfe, Jon and Vertenstein, Mariana and Craig, Anthony and Kluzek, Erik and Lawrence, David M.},
abstractNote = {The Glimmer Community Ice Sheet Model (Glimmer-CISM) has been implemented in the Community Earth System Model (CESM). Glimmer-CISM is forced by a surface mass balance (SMB) computed in multiple elevation classes in the CESM land model and downscaled to the ice sheet grid. Ice sheet evolution is governed by the shallow-ice approximation with thermomechanical coupling and basal sliding. This paper describes and evaluates the initial model implementation for the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS). The ice sheet model was spun up using the SMB from a coupled CESM simulation with preindustrial forcing. The model's sensitivity to three key ice sheet parameters was explored by running an ensemble of 100 GIS simulations to quasi equilibrium and ranking each simulation based on multiple diagnostics. With reasonable parameter choices, the steady-state GIS geometry is broadly consistent with observations. The simulated ice sheet is too thick and extensive, however, in some marginal regions where the SMB is anomalously positive. The top-ranking simulations were continued using surface forcing from CESM simulations of the twentieth century (1850–2005) and twenty-first century (2005–2100, with RCP8.5 forcing). In these simulations the GIS loses mass, with a resulting global-mean sea level rise of 16 mm during 1850–2005 and 60 mm during 2005–2100. This mass loss is caused mainly by increased ablation near the ice sheet margin, offset by reduced ice discharge to the ocean. Projected sea level rise is sensitive to the initial geometry, showing the importance of realistic geometry in the spun-up ice sheet.},
doi = {10.1175/jcli-d-12-00557.1},
journal = {Journal of Climate},
number = 19,
volume = 26,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2013},
month = {Tue Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2013}
}
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