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Application of a Polythermal Three-Dimensional Ice Sheet Model to the Greenland Ice Sheet: Response to Steady-State and Transient Climate Scenarios

Ralf Greve1
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  • 1 Department of Mechanics, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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01 May 1997
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https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0442(1997)010<0901:AOAPTD>2.0.CO;2
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901–918
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Abstract

Steady-state and transient climate-change computations are performed with the author’s three-dimensional polythermal ice sheet model Simulation Code for Polythermal Ice Sheets for the Greenland Ice Sheet. The distinctive feature of this model is the detailed consideration of the basal temperate ice layer, in which the water content and its impact on the ice viscosity are computed; its transition surface to the cold ice region is accounted for by continuum-mechanical jump conditions on this interface. The simulations presented include steady states subject to a range of physical parameters and two different climates (present and glacial conditions), as well as three types of transient scenarios, namely (i) sinusoidal Milanković-period forcing, (ii) paleoclimatic forcing from the Greenland Ice Core Project core reconstruction, and (iii) future greenhouse warming forcing.

Corresponding author address: Dr. Ralf Greve, Department of Mechanics, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany.

Email: greve@mechanik.th-darmstadt.de

Abstract

Steady-state and transient climate-change computations are performed with the author’s three-dimensional polythermal ice sheet model Simulation Code for Polythermal Ice Sheets for the Greenland Ice Sheet. The distinctive feature of this model is the detailed consideration of the basal temperate ice layer, in which the water content and its impact on the ice viscosity are computed; its transition surface to the cold ice region is accounted for by continuum-mechanical jump conditions on this interface. The simulations presented include steady states subject to a range of physical parameters and two different climates (present and glacial conditions), as well as three types of transient scenarios, namely (i) sinusoidal Milanković-period forcing, (ii) paleoclimatic forcing from the Greenland Ice Core Project core reconstruction, and (iii) future greenhouse warming forcing.

Corresponding author address: Dr. Ralf Greve, Department of Mechanics, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, D-64289 Darmstadt, Germany.

Email: greve@mechanik.th-darmstadt.de

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