Representing Grounding Line Dynamics in Numerical Ice Sheet Models: Recent Advances and Outlook

Surveys in Geophysics

Volumn 32, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 417-435

  Docquier, David ^a   Perichon, Laura ^a   Pattyn, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Grounding line; Ice sheet modeling; Marine ice sheet instability; West Antarctic ice sheet

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX PROCESSES; FINITE DIFFERENCE; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; GROUNDING LINE; ICE FLOW; ICE LOSS; ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET MODELS; ICE SHELVES; ICE-FLOW MODELS; MARINE ICE SHEET INSTABILITY; NUMERICAL TREATMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STATE OF THE ART; STEADY STATE SOLUTION; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS;

ICE;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GLACIER DYNAMICS; GLACIER RETREAT; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELF; ICE THICKNESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 80053205075     PISSN: 01693298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10712-011-9133-3     Document Type: Article

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