Adaptive mesh, finite volume modeling of marine ice sheets

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 529-549

  Cornford, Stephen L ^a   Martin, Daniel F ^b   Graves, Daniel T ^b   Ranken, Douglas F ^c   Le Brocq, Anne M ^d   Gladstone, Rupert M ^a   Payne, Antony J ^a   Ng, Esmond G ^b   Lipscomb, William H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Free surface problems; Grounding line; Marine ice sheets

Indexed keywords

GLACIERS; ICE; MESH GENERATION;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; ADAPTIVE MESHES; CONTINENTAL SCALE; FINITE VOLUME MODELING; FREE SURFACE PROBLEMS; GROUNDING LINE; ICE SHEET; ICE SHELVES; MARINE ICE SHEET; WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEETS;

FINITE VOLUME METHOD;

EID: 84868460211     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.08.037     Document Type: Article

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