climate_2010_pitt

climate_2010_pitt, "The Big Thaw: Simulating Greenland's Future", a talk to the Computational Mathematics Seminar at the University of Pittsburgh Mathematics Department, 10 December 2010.

A plain text abstract of the talk is available as climate_2010_pitt.txt.

• climate_2010_pitt.tex
• climate_2010_pitt.pdf

The following files were used for the presentation:

• arolla_velocity.png, a contour plot of down-slope velocity for a test case involving the Arolla glacier, as computed by Mauro Perego's finite element model;
• calving.png, an image of a block of ice "calving" from an ice sheet into the ocean;
• conforming_grid2.png, an example of how grids can be refined near a land/ocean interface so that results computed over one region can be accurately copied and used in the other;
• fsu_logo.pdf, a PDF image of a logo.
• ghost_cells.png, an image suggesting how "ghost cells" are used to allow a finite difference mesh to be divided into submeshed and processed in parallel
• greenland_map.png, a map of Greenland showing the many tourist locations.
• greenland_outline.png, an outline map of Greenland.
• ice_springs.png, an image of meltwater pouring off an ice sheet and into the ocean.
• normalization.png, a schematic of how the ice sheet is "flattened" in the Z direction so that the model ice sheet has a uniform thickness of 1 unit.
• staggered_grid.png, an image of the staggered grid used over each ice sheet layer, in the finite volume approach.
• surface_melt.png, an image of streams of surface meltwater running across the ice sheet.