Elmer Ice Sheet modeling

Currently, the largest homogeneous user group of Elmer is within Glaciology, which deals with all aspects of frozen water, commonly known as ice. Especially the dynamics of ice masses (ice-sheets and -shelves, glaciers) have been/are objects of investigations using Elmer as the numerical tool.

Related Publications

Please take a look at

• Peer Reviewed Publications Related to Elmer Applications in Glaciology

for a list of peer reviewed Glaciological papers.

Elmer/Ice - Repository

please follow this link

• Repository and Documentation for Glaciological Source Code

to download code needed for your glacier/Ice-sheet simulations. All code is published under the same license as Elmer (GPL2 or later)

Course material

• Elmer/Ice course 14 and 15 February, 2008, LGGE, Grenoble, France
• A Test Example (ISMIP-HOM E, Arolla flow line) using ElmerGUI
• SVALI Elmer/Ice course 23 May to 3 June, 2011, Espoo, Finland

The following projects have been dealing/are being dealt with using Elmer

• Gorshkov Crater (mechanical deformation of firn)
• Lovenbreen Svalbard
• Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS)
• ISMIP-HOM (Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project - Higher Order Models)
• MISMIP (Marine Ice Sheet Intercomparison)
• MISMIP3D (The third dimension in Marine Ice Sheet Intercomparison)
• Shirase Glacier (N-E Antarctica)
• Dome F region (including anisotropy)
• Elmer is used as a tool within the EU FP7 project ice2sea
• Elmer is used as a tool within the Nordic Centre of Excellence SVALI

--Tzwinger 07:22, 15 April 2011 (UTC)