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
  • Isochronal layer tracing

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