Grounding-line migration in plan-view marine ice-sheet models: Results of the ice2sea MISMIP3d intercomparison

Journal of Glaciology

Volumn 59, Issue 215, 2013, Pages 410-422

  Pattyn, Frank ^a   Perichon, Laura ^a   Durand, Gaël ^b   Favier, Lionel ^b   Gagliardini, Olivier ^b,c   Hindmarsh, Richard C A ^d   Zwinger, Thomas ^e   Albrecht, Torsten ^f,g   Cornford, Stephen ^h   Docquier, David ^a   Fürst, Johannes J ⁱ   Goldberg, Daniel ^j   Gudmundsson, G Hilmar ^d   Humbert, Angelika ^k,l   Hütten, Moritz ^f,g   Huybrechts, Philippe ⁱ   Jouvet, Guillaume ^m   Kleiner, Thomas ^l   Larour, Eric ⁿ   Martin, Daniel ^o   Morlighem, Mathieu ^p   Payne, Anthony J ^h   Pollard, David ^q   Rückamp, Martin ^k   Rybak, Oleg ⁱ   Seroussi, Hélène ⁿ   Thoma, Malte ^l   Wilkens, Nina ^k   more..

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^e IT Center for Science   (Finland)

^f POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^j MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^l ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^m FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

ⁿ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^o LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^q PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ICE SHEET; MODELING; PREDICTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 84880410049     PISSN: 00221430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3189/2013JoG12J129     Document Type: Article

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