Data assimilation for moving mesh methods with an application to ice sheet modelling

Bonan, Bertrand; Nichols, Nancy K.; Baines, Michael J.; Partridge, Dale

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-24-515-2017

Articles | Volume 24, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-24-515-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/npg-24-515-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 3

Research article

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05 Sep 2017

Research article |

| 05 Sep 2017

Data assimilation for moving mesh methods with an application to ice sheet modelling

Bertrand Bonan, Nancy K. Nichols, Michael J. Baines, and Dale Partridge

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 12 Oct 2016
RC2: 'review of npg-2016-45', Stephen Cornford, 28 Oct 2016
- AC1: 'Short reply to Stephen Cornford's review', Bertrand Bonan, 04 Nov 2016
  - RC3: 'Reply to reply', Stephen Cornford, 04 Nov 2016
EC1: 'Editor's comment', Olivier Talagrand, 09 Nov 2016

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Anna Mirena Feist-Polner on behalf of the Authors (29 May 2017) Author's response

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (30 May 2017) by Olivier Talagrand

RR by Stephen Cornford (17 Jun 2017)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (05 Jul 2017)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (06 Jul 2017) by Olivier Talagrand

AR by Nancy Nichols on behalf of the Authors (19 Jul 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (25 Jul 2017) by Olivier Talagrand

Short summary

We develop data assimilation techniques for numerical models using moving mesh methods. Moving meshes are valuable for explicitly tracking interfaces and boundaries in evolving systems. The application of the techniques is demonstrated on a one-dimensional model of an ice sheet. It is shown, using various types of observations, that the techniques predict the evolution of the edges of the ice sheet and its height accurately and efficiently.