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Da ase o
“On non-dimensional o ms o basal sliding laws
and low laws o ice-shee and glacie modelling”
(Jou nal o Glaciology, Vol. 71, e123, 2025, doi: 10.1017/jog.2025.10100)
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Ral G e e1,2
1 Ins i u e o Low Tempe a u e Science, Hokkaido Uni e si y, Sappo o, Japan
2 A c ic Resea ch Cen e , Hokkaido Uni e si y, Sappo o, Japan
Th ee model expe imen s ( o de ails see he pape , Sec . 4)
Simila o expe imen H o he EISMINT Phase 2 Simpli ied Geome y Expe imen s (Payne
and o he s, 2000, J. Glaciol. 46, 227-238, doi: 10.3189/172756500781832891).
• Exp. H1: Wee man sliding wi h (p,q) = (1,0), Nye–Glen low law wi h n = 3.
• Exp. H2: Wee man–Budd sliding wi h (p,q) = (3,2), Nye–Glen low law wi h n = 3.
• Exp. H3: Wee man sliding wi h (p,q) = (1,0), Nye–Glen low law wi h n = 4.
Run wi h SICOPOLIS 25 ( e ision 2488194da o 2025-06-30), compile g o an 13.3.1.
The SICOPOLIS un-specs heade iles a e con ained in he a chi e ‘ un_specs_heade s.zip’.
Va iables
The a iable names ollow closely he ISMIP6/7 con en ion (e.g.,
h ps:// heghub.o g/g oups/ismip6/wiki/ISMIP6-P ojec ions-G eenland). Howe e , yea s a e
used ins ead o seconds as he ime uni (1 a = 31,556,925.445 s).
2D s a e a iables (in a chi es ‘expH1.zip’, ‘expH2.zip’, ‘expH3.zip’)
li hk – Ice hickness (m)
x elsu – Su ace eloci y in x (m a−1)
y elsu – Su ace eloci y in y (m a−1)
z elsu – Su ace eloci y in z (m a−1)
ho elsu – Ho izon al su ace eloci y (m a−1)
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x elbase – Basal eloci y in x (m a−1)
y elbase – Basal eloci y in y (m a−1)
z elbase – Basal eloci y in z (m a−1)
ho elbase – Ho izon al basal eloci y (m a−1)
x elmean – Mean eloci y in x (m a−1)
y elmean – Mean eloci y in y (m a−1)
ho elmean – Ho izon al mean eloci y (m a−1)
li emp op – Su ace empe a u e (K)
li empbo – Basal empe a u e (K)
s basemag – Basal d ag (Pa)
s gi – Land ice a ea ac ion (–)
These a iables a e p o ided as snapsho s o he imes = 5 ka, 25 ka, 100 ka ( inal ime).
Time a iable: ‘ ime’.
Scala s a e a iables (in a chi es ‘expH1.zip’, ‘expH2.zip’, ‘expH3.zip’)
lim – To al ice mass (kg)
ia eag – G ounded ice a ea (m2)
These a iables a e p o ided as snapsho s e e y 10 yea s: = 0.01 ka, 0.02 ka, …, 100 ka.
Time a iable: ‘ ime’.
No e
Fo u he de ails on he a iables, see he me ada a in he ne CDF iles (e.g., by Linux
command ‘ncdump -h’ o MATLAB command ‘ncdisp’).
