Contributors

Contributing models

ISMIP7 includes two main types of models:

1. Coupled Climate Models with Ice Sheets

   • Integrating ice sheet models with global climate models or Earth system models  to improve feedbacks between ice sheets, atmosphere, and ocean.

   • Understanding how ice sheets evolve in response to different climate scenarios.

   • Improving the representation of ice-atmosphere and ice–ocean interactions within Earth system models.

2. Standalone Ice Sheet Modeling 

   • Running ice sheet models independently using prescribed climate forcing.

   • Exploring uncertainties in ice sheet behavior by varying model initialization, parameters, and ice dynamics.

   • Evaluating the role of surface mass balance, basal melt, and calving processes in long-term projections.