DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10066185
title: Main output data used in "Coupling the regional climate MAR model with the ice sheet model PISM mitigates the melt-elevation positive feedback" (Delhasse et al., 2024)

description: Outputs used in:

Delhasse, A., Beckmann, J., Kittel, C., and Fettweis, X.: Coupling MAR (Modèle Atmosphérique Régional) with PISM (Parallel Ice Sheet Model) mitigates the positive melt–elevation feedback, The Cryosphere, 18, 633–651, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-633-2024, 2024.

MAR-PISM coupling experiments outputs over 1991-2200. The main experiments are:



MAPI-2w: 2-way coupling, consideration online of the melt-elevation feedback (evolving topography in MAR).

MAPI-1w: 1-way coupling, consideration of the melt-elevation feedback only with the offline correction (Franco et al., 2012) of the MAR outputs (fixed topography in MAR).

MAPI-0w:  0-way coupling, no consideration of the melt-elevation feedback (fixed topography in MAR and no correction during interpolation).


MAR files contain yearly SMB (surface mass balance) and ST (surface temperature) interpolated (with correction) on the PISM-4.5km grid. Gradients used for the correction of the melt-elevation feedback are also given for both variables. SMB and ST are the two required MAR fields to couple MAR with PISM. 

PISM files contain yearly ice thickness (THK) and ice mask (MASK) as simulated by PISM for each of the three experiments. 

The MAR code used in this dataset is tagged as v3.11.3 on https://gitlab.com/Mar-Group/MARv3# (last access: 23 January 2024) (MARTeam, 2024). The PISM code used is tagged as PISMv1.2.2 on https://github.com/pism/pism/releases/tag/v1.2.2 (last access: 23 January 2024). Other coupling scripts are also available upon request by email (alison.delhasse@uliege.be).

If you need other variables from MAR or PISM, send us an email (alison.delhasse@uliege.be, johanna.beckmann@monash.edu) and we will be glad to help you. We will also be happy to share the scripts we have developed to analyse the outputs and make the figures in this paper if needed. Please cite the paper if you use these MAR-PISM outputs.Data usage notice:

If you use any of these results, please acknowledge the work of the people involved in producing them. Acknowledgments should be similar to the one below that contains information related to MAR and PISM. To document MAR scientific impact and enable ongoing support of the model, users are likely encouraged to contact me to add their works to the list of MAR-related publications. 

"We thank A. Delhasse and J. Beckmann, as well as the MAR and PISM teams which make available the model outputs. We also thank agencies (F.R.S - FNRS, CÉCI, and the Walloon Region) that provided computational resources for MAR-PISM simulations. "

You should also refer to and cite the following paper in its latest version:

Delhasse, A., Beckmann, J., Kittel, C., and Fettweis, X.: Coupling MAR (Modèle Atmosphérique Régional) with PISM (Parallel Ice Sheet Model) mitigates the positive melt–elevation feedback, The Cryosphere, 18, 633–651, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-18-633-2024, 2024.

Reference

Franco, B., Fettweis, X., Lang, C., and Erpicum, M.: Impact of spatial resolution on the modelling of the Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance between 1990–2010, using the regional climate model MAR, The Cryosphere, 6, 695–711, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-6-695-2012, 2012.

MARTeam: MARv3.11, GitLab [data set], https://gitlab.com/Mar-Group/MARv3# (last access: 28 May 2022), 2021.