The upcoming stable 0.5 release supports parallel NetCDF4, thus avoiding the file size limitations of netCDF3. This allows for unprecedented grid resolutions.
Parallel netCDF4 allows first Greenland simulation on a 1km grid
The European PISM (Parallel Ice Sheet Model) workshop will be held in Hamburg, Germany, from Monday, the May 21, 2012 (starting at noon), to Tuesday, May 22. Workshop announcement is available at
As promised in an earlier news item, we have moved source code hosting from gna.org to github.com.
As of 19 October 2011 we have committed 2000 revisions to PISM in the
last five years, for an average of about one commit message per day.
We can thank the generous public hosting of PISM at gna.org for
this, and subversion too.
If you are following the development branch you know that much of the capability developed by Anders Levermann’s group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is now in PISM. The former PISM-PIK branch of PISM stable0.2 has merged with PISM. This major merge means that PISM is now a joint UAF-PIK project. Both groups are committed to supporting the new capabilities as an open, documented model.