Full Stokes modeling of marine ice sheets: Influence of the grid size

Annals of Glaciology

Volumn 50, Issue 52, 2009, Pages 109-114

  Durand, Gaël ^a   Gagliardini, Olivier ^a   Zwinger, Thomas ^b   Meur, Emmanuel Le ^a   Hindmarsh, Richard C A ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b IT Center for Science   (Finland)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 70350096250     PISSN: 02603055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/172756409789624283     Document Type: Article

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