If you are interested in participating or organizing an ISMASS event, please contact Heiko Goelzer, the ISMASS Chair.
2022 ISMASS workshop Ice Sheets: Weather versus Climate
Reykjavik, 23-24 August 2022. Sponsored by CliC/SCAR/IASC and affiliated with Cryosphere 2022
[Website]
2018 ISMASS Workshop: Update on mass balance of Greenland and Antarctica (linkages between data and models)
POLAR2018, Davos, Switzerland
June 15, 2018, all-day
[Website]
2015 ISMASS Steering Committee Meeting
Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
18 August 2015, 5:30-7:30 PM
[Website]
Contact Catherine Ritz
ISMASS Workshop on the Marine Ice Sheet and Ice Shelf‐Ocean Model Intercomparison Projects
Churchill College, Cambridge, UK
16 August 2015
[Website]
Constraining uncertainty in Greenland Ice Sheet surface mass balance model output and in situ validation
University of Sheffield, UK
19-20 May 2015
[Website]
Contact Edward Hanna
GIA Modeling 2015
Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska – Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
26 – 29 May 2015
[Website]
ISMASS Session at Our Common Future Under Climate Change Conference
Paris, France
7-10 July 2015
ISMASS 2014 Steering Committee Meeting
Monday, 25 August 2014
Auckland, New Zealand
[Report]
Workshop on ice-sheet future projections
Linked with the SCAR Open Science Conference
Tuesday 26 August 2014, 6-8 pm. Auckland Room 3
Auckland, New Zealand
contact Catherine Ritz
The objective was to stimulate the ice-sheet community to improve methods and agree on common framework when producing ice-sheet mass balance model projections for the next 100 years.
This meeting included a report by Ryan Walker on the outputs of the “Ice sheet MIP for CMIP6” workshop that was in July 2014 and initiated ISMIP6.
Projections of ice sheets mass balance over the next centuries strongly depend on the atmospheric and oceanic forcings. During the previous IPCC assessment (AR5), several groups produced projections but the methods to force the ice sheets models differed substantially. One difficulty comes from the fact that, in the framework of IPCC, atmospheric and oceanic fields from coupled AOGCMs are necessary but are available only by the end of an IPCC Assessment, too late to be used by ice sheet modelers for their own simulations in the corresponding report. For the last IPCC (AR5) report, this reduced for instance the number of ice sheet simulations done with an RCP8.5 scenario. Methods used to initialize ice sheet models, to downscale AOGCM fields, to take into account surface mass balance-elevation feedbacks and to use ocean characteristics to initiate dynamic response of the ice sheets (calving and grounding line retreat) are other examples that have been treated very differently by the various groups. We should now take advantage of the variety of methods applied during IPCC AR5 to compare them and evaluate their impact on the results. The objective is to improve the methods and agree on common framework when producing ice-sheet mass balance model projections for the next 100 years. This should help to derive realistic ranges of uncertainties in ice sheet projections.
IMBIE follow-up and the forthcoming AGU Chapman Conference
September 2014 arranged by Andy Shepherd.
Marine Ice Sheet-Ocean Model Intercomparion Project Kick-Off Meeting
27-29 October 2014
New York University Campus in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
[website]
IGS Conference in Chamonix
25-30 May
[Website and meeting notes]
Marine ice-sheet model inter-comparison splinter group meeting (MISMIP)
Spring 2014
EGU in Vienna
contact Frank Pattyn.
[Website] [Meeting Notes]
ISMASS Steering Committee Meeting
7 October 2013
Sheffield, UK
[Meeting notes]
ISMASS 2012 Kick-off Workshop
14 July 2012
Portland, Oregon, USA
[Report] [Website]
Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level: A Science Plan
Presented at the International Glaciological Society Conference
July 27-31, 2009
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
[Report]
Ice Sheet Modelling Summer School
3 – 14 August 2009
Portland, Oregon, USA
[Report] [Website]
Improving Ice Sheet Models
5-7 July 2008
St Petersburg, Russia
[Website]