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The Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) is an open-source modelling framework for ice sheets and glaciers. It is parallel, thermodynamically-coupled and capable of high
resolution. PISM has been widely adopted as a tool for doing science for about twenty years now. The latest stable release is PISM v2.1.
PISM is jointly developed at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). UAF developers are based in the Glaciers Group at the UAF Geophysical Institute. For more about the team see the developers team page.
Development of PISM is supported by NASA grants 20-CRYO2020-0052 and 80NSSC22K0274 and NSF grant OAC-2118285.
Projection of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 2008-2300 under RCP 8.5. Data from Aschwanden et al. (2019). Video by Cindy Starr (NASA SVS).
If you are looking for help with PISM, feel free to join the PISM workspace on Slack. You can also contact the developers team directly or write an e-mail to uaf-pism@alaska.edu. To fetch our latest news or get in touch with us, follow us on Twitter!
Latest news
A two-year PostDoc positions in ice sheet and Earth system modelling is available in the Ice Dynamics group, as part of the new Earth Resilience Science Unit (ERSU), at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).
Two PhD fellowship positions in ice sheet modelling are advertised at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.
The Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven, is offering a PhD position in the field of coupled ice sheet-ocean modelling. The core of the project is to run simulations with FESOM-PISM (a coupled ocean-ice shelf-ice sheet model with evolving cavity geometries) for different 21st-century climate projections to obtain well-constrained trajectories of future ice mass loss from the vast Antarctic Ice Sheet. Model results will feed into a fingerprinting method that considers the ocean response as well as gravitational effects and contributions from other sources. The final product will be a time series of global maps of regional sea-level variations that consider all of the most relevant processes.