Abstract: Abstract. We present the result of the third Marine Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project, MISMIP+.MISMIP+ is intended to be a benchmark for ice-flow models which includefast sliding marine ice streams and floating ice shelves and in particulara treatment of viscous stress that is sufficient to model buttressing,where upstream ice flow is restrained by a downstream ice shelf. A set of idealizedexperiments first tests that models are able to maintaina steady state with the grounding line located on a retrograde slope due to buttressing andthen...
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Topics:
Climatology
Oceanography
Mechanics