User guide

For modelers with ISMIP7 output to process: how the files have to be named and laid out, what every option does, what comes out, and where the numbers come from. New here? Start with Getting started.

Contents

• Installation
  • From a checkout
  • What it installs
  • Dependencies
  • MATLAB
• File and directory conventions
  • Directory layout
  • Model output filenames
  • Time encoding
  • Generic data files
  • params.nc
• Where the conventions come from
  • The ISMIP7 data request, from isschecker
  • The CORE experiment table, from this package
  • The area factors and masks, from Globus
• Running the processing
  • Identifying the run
  • The historical reference
  • How much history to write out
  • Which masks to integrate over
  • Paths
  • Other
  • Exit codes
• The output files
  • Filenames
  • Sea-level contribution
  • State scalars
  • Flux scalars
  • Attributes
• The sea-level methods
  • Volume above flotation (slvaf)
  • Goelzer et al. (2020) (slg20)
  • Adhikari et al. (2020) (sla20)
  • Densities and ocean area
  • Glaciers and ice caps
• Processing a whole ensemble
  • What gets processed
  • How projections are paired with a historical run
  • Options
  • Logs