This activity fills a need for international coordination in the evaluation and testing of large-scale ice sheet models and the development of consistently-applied test cases and diagnostics. In addition, an intercomparison effort connected to CMIP6 will be undertaken to evaluate the simulation of ice sheets in those ESMs that include an interactive ice sheet component, and to evaluate the surface energy and mass balance terms over ice sheet areas in those ESMs that do not explicitly include ice sheet dynamics.

ISMIP6 Downloads

Questionnaire on “standalone” ice-sheet model initialization strategy Initialization questionnaire for ice sheet modelsDownload ISMIP 6 Application for CMIP6-Endorsed MIPs Proposal submitted to the CMIP6 panel, revised on March 31, 2015Download…

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Participants

ISMIP6 is a community effort that involves scientists interested in the polar regions, ranging from experts in polar remote sensing to modeling. If you would like to be involved in…

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Contribute

Participation is open to the entire scientific community and ISMIP6 success will rely on contribution from individual scientist to modeling centers, along with collaborations with other modeling intercomparison projects or…

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Meetings

ISMIP6 Meetings ISMIP6 meeting at the 27th IUGG General Assembly, entitled “Analysis of the ISMIP6 simulations”14 July 2019 - 8:30am-5:00pm, Room 518BMontreal, CanadaAgenda:8:30-9:00: registration + welcome9:00-12:00: Focus on Antarctica: Analysis…

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Experiments

The overall framework for ISMIP6 is designed to deliver projections of the ice sheets contribution to sea level rise.  Together with the CliC targeted activity on glaciers and projections of…

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About ISMIP6

The Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP6 (ISMIP6) brings together a consortium of international ice sheet models and coupled ice sheet-climate models to fully explore the sea level rise…

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