The glimmer community ice sheet model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Rutt, I C ^a   Hagdorn, M ^b   Hulton, N R J ^b   Payne, A J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BENCHMARKING; CLIMATE FORCING; ICE SHEET; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFTWARE; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 73649116739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JF001015     Document Type: Article

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