GLIMMER 0.5.7 Documentation

Magnus Hagdorn*, Ian Rutt†, Tony Payne‡ and Felix Hebeler§

December 5, 2006

*Magnus.Hagdorn@ed.ac.uk
†I.C.Rutt@bristol.ac.uk
‡A.J.Payne@bristol.ac.uk
§fhebeler@geo.unizh.ch
Contents
1 User Guide
 1.1 Introduction
 1.2 Getting and Installing GLIMMER
 1.3 GLIDE
 1.4 Example Climate Drivers
 1.5 Supplied mass-balance schemes
2 PyCF Tools
 2.1 Installation
 2.2 Visualising GLIMMER Output
 2.3 Non–Graphical PyCF Tools
3 Numerics
 3.1 Ice Thickness Evolution
 3.2 Temperature Solver
 3.3 Basal Boundary Condition
 3.4 Isostatic Adjustment
4 Developer Guide
 4.1 Introduction
 4.2 Introduction to GLIMMER programming techniques
 4.3 GLIMMER structure and design
 4.4 Physics documentation
 4.5 Configuration File Parser
 4.6 netCDF I/O
5 Tutorial
 5.1 Introduction
 5.2 Starting GLIMMER using GLIDE
A netCDF Variables
 A.1 Glide Variables
 A.2 EIS Variables
 A.3 GLINT Variables
B The GLIMMER API
 B.1 GLUM
 B.2 GLIDE
 B.3 GLINT
Bibliography