A system of conservative regridding for ice–atmosphere coupling in a GCM | |
investigators: | R. Fischer, S. Nowicki, M. Kelley, and G. A. Schmidt |
journal: | Geosci. Model Dev. |
This paper describes a conservative method using elevation classes to regrid surface mass balance fields between low-resolution GCMs and high-resolution ice sheet models. The proposed transformations are both mass and energy conserving, making them suitable for two-way coupling between climate and ice sheet models. These transformations are implemented in Glint2, a library used to couple atmosphere models with ice models.