Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
2006-10-16
Journal of Glaciology, vol. 53, no. 182, 2007
Physics
Geophysics
16 pages, two C codes; extended appendix to Bueler, Brown, and Lingle, "Exact solutions to the thermocoupled shallow ice appro
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This three section report can be regarded as an extended appendix to (Bueler, Brown, and Lingle 2006). First we give the detailed construction of an exact solution to a standard continuum model of a cold, shallow, and thermocoupled ice sheet. The construction is by calculation of compensatory accumulation and heat source functions which make a chosen pair of functions for thickness and temperature into exact solutions of the coupled system. The solution we construct here is ``TestG'' in (Bueler and others, 2006) and the steady state solution ``Test F'' is a special case. In the second section we give a reference C implementation of these exact solutions. In the last section we give an error analysis of a finite difference scheme for the temperature equation in the thermocoupled model. The error analysis gives three results, first the correct form of the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) condition for stability of the advection scheme, second an equation for error growth which contributes to understanding the famous ``spokes'' of (Payne and others, 2000), and third a convergence theorem under stringent fixed geometry and smoothness assumptions.
Brown Jed
Bueler Ed
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