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William H.

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Spinning up a highly complex, coupled Earth system model (ESM) is a time consuming and computationally demanding exercise. For models with interactive ice sheet components, this becomes a major challenge, as ice sheets are sensitive to bidirectional feedback processes and equi ...

Ice sheets are a major component of the Earth System, however they are not yet interactively coupled to most global climate models. Here we present past achievements in this front with the CESM1.0 version as well as first results and challenges with the upcoming CESM2.0, where th ...
The ice streams and outlet glaciers of the Greenland Ice sheet (GrIS) are dynamic active parts of the ice sheets; with the recent accelerated contribution to global sea level rise attributed to retreat and thinning from many marine-terminating outlet glaciers. For example, across ...