Ice dynamics and thermodynamics¶

  • Choosing the stress balance
    • Shallow shelf approximation (SSA)
      • Parameters
      • Technical remarks
    • Shallow ice approximation (SIA)
      • Surface gradient method
      • Parameterization of bed roughness
      • Coupling to the age of the ice
      • Parameters
    • Weertman-style sliding law
      • Parameters
    • Blatter’s model
      • Surface gradient computation
      • Adaptive time stepping
      • Practical preconditioners choices
      • Parameters
  • Ice rheology
    • Flow law choices
    • Enhancement factor and exponent
  • Modeling conservation of energy
  • Computing ice age

Previous Up Next

Logo

Navigation

  • Acknowledgements
  • Installing PISM
  • PISM User’s Manual
    • Getting started: a Greenland ice sheet example
    • Ice dynamics, the PISM view
    • Initialization and bootstrapping
    • Modeling choices
      • Model domain, grid, and time
      • Ice dynamics and thermodynamics
      • The subglacier
      • Marine ice sheet modeling
      • Modeling individual outlet glaciers
      • Disabling sub-models
      • Dealing with more difficult modeling choices
    • Practical usage
    • Simplified geometry experiments
    • Verification
    • Validation case studies
    • Example: A regional model of the Jakobshavn outlet glacier in Greenland
    • Configuration parameters
    • Diagnostic quantities
  • Climate forcing
  • Technical notes
  • Contributing to PISM
  • Authorship
  • References

Quick search

Git revision v2.0.6 committed by Constantine Khrulev on 2023-01-23 15:14:38 -0900 | © 2004--2022, the PISM authors.