Challenges and prospects in ocean circulation models

B Fox-Kemper, A Adcroft, CW Böning… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We revisit the challenges and prospects for ocean circulation models following Griffies et al..
Over the past decade, ocean circulation models evolved through improved understanding …

Understanding of contemporary regional sea‐level change and the implications for the future

BD Hamlington, AS Gardner, E Ivins… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Global sea level provides an important indicator of the state of the warming climate, but
changes in regional sea level are most relevant for coastal communities around the world …

Short-and long-term variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets

E Hanna, D Topál, JE Box, S Buzzard… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
The variability of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets occurs on various timescales and is
important for projections of sea level rise; however, there are substantial uncertainties …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of sub-shelf melting parameterisations using the ocean–ice-sheet coupled model NEMO (v3. 6)–Elmer/Ice (v8. 3)

L Favier, NC Jourdain, A Jenkins… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
Oceanic melting beneath ice shelves is the main driver of the current mass loss of the
Antarctic ice sheet and is mostly parameterised in stand-alone ice-sheet modelling …

Experimental design for the Marine Ice Sheet–Ocean Model Intercomparison Project–phase 2 (MISOMIP2)

J De Rydt, NC Jourdain, Y Nakayama… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Abstract The Marine Ice Sheet–Ocean Model Intercomparison Project–phase 2 (MISOMIP2)
is a natural progression of previous and ongoing model intercomparison exercises that have …

The Relative Impacts of Initialization and Climate Forcing in Coupled Ice Sheet‐Ocean Modeling: Application to Pope, Smith, and Kohler Glaciers

DN Goldberg, PR Holland - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Coupled ice sheet‐ocean models are beginning to be used to study the response of ice
sheets to ocean warming. Initializing an ice‐ocean model is challenging and can introduce …

Effects of calving and submarine melting on steady states and stability of buttressed marine ice sheets

M Haseloff, OV Sergienko - Journal of Glaciology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Mass loss from ice shelves is a strong control on grounding-line dynamics. Here we
investigate how calving and submarine melt parameterizations affect steady-state grounding …

Putting it all together: Adding value to the global ocean and climate observing systems with complete self-consistent ocean state and parameter estimates

P Heimbach, I Fukumori, CN Hill, RM Ponte… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In 1999, the consortium on Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO) set
out to synthesize the hydrographic data collected by the World Ocean Circulation …

Coupled ice/ocean interactions during the future retreat of West Antarctic ice streams

DT Bett, AT Bradley, CR Williams… - The Cryosphere …, 2023 - tc.copernicus.org
The Amundsen Sea sector has some of the fastest-thinning ice shelves in Antarctica, caused
by high, ocean-driven basal melt rates, which can lead to increased ice stream flow, causing …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating an accelerated forcing approach for improving computational efficiency in coupled ice sheet–ocean modelling

Q Zhou, C Zhao, R Gladstone… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Coupled ice sheet–ocean models are increasingly being developed and applied to
important questions pertaining to processes at the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheet …