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DOI10.5194/tc-14-811-2020
Assimilation of surface observations in a transient marine ice sheet model using an ensemble Kalman filter
Gillet-Chaulet F.
发表日期2020
ISSN19940416
起始页码811
结束页码832
卷号14期号:3
英文摘要Marine-based sectors of the Antarctic Ice Sheet are increasingly contributing to sea level rise. The basal conditions exert an important control on the ice dynamics and can be propitious to instabilities in the grounding line position. Because the force balance is non-inertial, most ice flow models are now equipped with time-independent inverse methods to constrain the basal conditions from observed surface velocities. However, transient simulations starting from this initial state usually suffer from inconsistencies and are not able to reproduce observed trends. Here, using a synthetic flow line experiment, we assess the performance of an ensemble Kalman filter for the assimilation of transient observations of surface elevation and velocities in a marine ice sheet model. The model solves the shallow shelf equation for the force balance and the continuity equation for ice thickness evolution. The position of the grounding line is determined by the floatation criterion. The filter analysis estimates both the state of the model, represented by the surface elevation, and the basal conditions, with the simultaneous inversion of the basal friction and topography. The idealised experiment reproduces a marine ice sheet that is in the early stage of an unstable retreat. Using observation frequencies and uncertainties consistent with current observing systems, we find that the filter allows the accurate recovery of both the basal friction and topography after few assimilation cycles with relatively small ensemble sizes. In addition it is found that assimilating the surface observations has a positive impact on constraining the evolution of the grounding line during the assimilation window. Using the initialised state to perform century-scale forecast simulations, we show that grounding line retreat rates are in agreement with the reference; however remaining uncertainties in the basal conditions may lead to significant delays in the initiation of the unstable retreat. These results are encouraging for the application to real glacial systems. © 2020 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved.
英文关键词grounding line; ice flow; ice sheet; ice thickness; Kalman filter; sea ice; sea level change; topography; Antarctic Ice Sheet; Antarctica
语种英语
来源期刊Cryosphere
文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/202085
作者单位Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, IGE, Grenoble, 38000, France
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Gillet-Chaulet F.. Assimilation of surface observations in a transient marine ice sheet model using an ensemble Kalman filter[J],2020,14(3).
APA Gillet-Chaulet F..(2020).Assimilation of surface observations in a transient marine ice sheet model using an ensemble Kalman filter.Cryosphere,14(3).
MLA Gillet-Chaulet F.."Assimilation of surface observations in a transient marine ice sheet model using an ensemble Kalman filter".Cryosphere 14.3(2020).
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