A semi-empirical model of sea-level contributions from the Greenland Ice Sheet in response to temperature changes
This code is intended to accompany the results of (link to paper):
Bakker, A., P. Applegate, and K. Keller: A simple, physically motivated model of sea-level contributions
from the Greenland ice sheet in response to temperature changes. Environmental Modeling and Software
(2016) 83, 27-35, doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.05.003.
SICOPOLOS data were made available by Patrick J. Applegate and were derived for:
Applegate, P. J., Keller, K., 2015. How effective is albedo modification (solar radiation management
geoengineering) in preventing sea-level rise from the Greenland Ice Sheet? Environmental Research
Letters 10 (8), 084018, doi: 10.1007/s00382-014-2451-7.
Applegate, P. J., Kirchner, N., Stone, E. J., Keller, K., Greve, R., 2012. An assessment of key model
parametric uncertainties in projections of Greenland Ice Sheet behavior. The Cryosphere 6, 589–606,
doi: 10.5194/tc-6- 589-2012.
Applegate, P. J., Parizek, B. R., Nicholas, R. E., Alley, R. B., Keller, K., 2015b. Increasing
temperature forcing reduces the Greenland Ice Sheet’s response time scale. Climate Dynamics 45
(7), 2001–2011, DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2451-7.
Other datafiles and figures are created by the R-scripts.
main.R executes all scripts in the right order
Figures may look slightly different than in paper as a result of an R-update
Alexander Bakker bakker@psu.edu