BISICLES is an Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) ice-sheet modeling effort built upon the Chombo framework
Getting Started (note that you can also access these pages from a BISICLES checkout in the docs/ directory – point your browser at docs/index.html)
BISICLES e-mail list:
There is a BISICLES google group and e-mail list at [email protected] for BISICLES-related updates and discussion. To subscribe, click here, or send an e-mail to [email protected].
html documentation of the BISICLES code (generated using Doxygen)
Short story about BISICLES on the LBL web page. (March 29, 2013)
E3SM Blog post about BISICLES Antarctic simulation movies. (November, 2018)
- Citing BISICLES: If you use BISICLES in your work, please cite the following:
- For the basic model: 2013 JCP paper: S.L. Cornford, D.F. Martin, D.T. Graves, D.F. Ranken, A.M. Le Brocq, R.M. Gladstone, A.J. Payne, E.G. Ng, and W. H. Lipscomb "Adaptive mesh, finite volume modeling of marine ice sheets.", Journal of Computational Physics, 232(1):529-549 (2013).
- If you're using BISICLES initialization procedure described in Cornford et al, 2015, then please cite that: S. L. Cornford, D. F. Martin, A. J. Payne, E. G. Ng, A. M. Le Brocq, R. M. Gladstone, T. L. Edwards, S. R. Shannon, C. Agosta, M. R. van den Broeke, H. H. Hellmer, G. Krinner, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, R. Timmermann, D. G. Vaughan, "Century-scale simulations of the response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to a warming climate",The Cryosphere, August 18, 2015, doi: 10.5194/tc-9-1579-2015, 2015.
- For the basic model: 2013 JCP paper: S.L. Cornford, D.F. Martin, D.T. Graves, D.F. Ranken, A.M. Le Brocq, R.M. Gladstone, A.J. Payne, E.G. Ng, and W. H. Lipscomb "Adaptive mesh, finite volume modeling of marine ice sheets.", Journal of Computational Physics, 232(1):529-549 (2013).
Publications:
- S.L. Cornford, D.F. Martin, D.T. Graves, D.F. Ranken, A.M. Le Brocq, R.M. Gladstone, A.J. Payne, E.G. Ng, and W. H. Lipscomb "Adaptive mesh, finite volume modeling of marine ice sheets.", Journal of Computational Physics, 232(1):529-549 (2013).
S. L. Cornford, D. F. Martin, A. J. Payne, E. G. Ng, A. M. Le Brocq, R. M. Gladstone, T. L. Edwards, S. R. Shannon, C. Agosta, M. R. van den Broeke, H. H. Hellmer, G. Krinner, S. R. M. Ligtenberg, R. Timmermann, D. G. Vaughan, "Century-scale simulations of the response of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to a warming climate",The Cryosphere, August 18, 2015, doi: 10.5194/tc-9-1579-2015, 2015.
S.L. Cornford, D.F.Martin, V. Lee, A.J. Payne, E.G. Ng,"Adaptive mesh refinement versus subgrid friction interpolation in simulations of Antarctic ice dynamics",Annals of Glaciology, September 2016, 57 (73), doi: 10.1017/aog.2016.13.
Daniel F. Martin, Stephen L. Cornford, Antony J. Payne, "Millennial‐scale Vulnerability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to Regional Ice Shelf Collapse", Geophysical Research Letters, January 9, 2019, doi: 10.1029/2018gl081229.
Movies:
Antarctic response to ice shelf collapse (the ABUMIP-ABUM experiment) and associated AMR meshes.
- Single-sector movies from Martin, Cornford, and Payne, GRL (2019).
