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GEOSCIENTIFIC MODEL DEVELOPMENT
Volume 9, Issue 12, Pages 4521-4545Publisher
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-9-4521-2016
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- Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project
- World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
- Netherlands Earth System Science Centre (NESSC)
- Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) [024.002.001]
- NASA Cryospheric Science Program
- NASA Modeling Analysis and Prediction Program
- Regional and Global Climate Modeling program of the Office of Biological and Environmental Research within the US Department of Energy's Office of Science
- NERC Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM)
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J005738/1, ncas10009, cpom30001, NE/N017978/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [16H02224, 26241011, 25241005] Funding Source: KAKEN
- NERC [NE/J005738/1, NE/N017978/1, cpom30001] Funding Source: UKRI
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Reducing the uncertainty in the past, present, and future contribution of ice sheets to sea-level change requires a coordinated effort between the climate and glaciology communities. The Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison Project for CMIP6 (ISMIP6) is the primary activity within the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project - phase 6 (CMIP6) focusing on the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. In this paper, we describe the framework for ISMIP6 and its relationship with other activities within CMIP6. The ISMIP6 experimental design relies on CMIP6 climate models and includes, for the first time within CMIP, coupled ice-sheet-climate models as well as standalone ice-sheet models. To facilitate analysis of the multi-model ensemble and to generate a set of standard climate inputs for standalone ice-sheet models, ISMIP6 defines a protocol for all variables related to ice sheets. ISMIP6 will provide a basis for investigating the feedbacks, impacts, and sea-level changes associated with dynamic ice sheets and for quantifying the uncertainty in ice-sheet-sourced global sea-level change.
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