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Abstract

We present a summary of current summarize progress and challenges faced in testing of the new MPAS-Land Ice model and coupling it to ACME. Results from large-scale, moderate-resolution, stand-alone MPAS-Land Ice simulations using realistic geometries and boundary conditions are compared to similar simulations using the Community Ice Sheet Model (CISM). Output We show output from MPAS-Ocean as applied to idealized, benchmark test cases of sub-ice shelf circulation are shown and compared compare with results from previous DOE -funded modeling efforts. We also summarize the describe progress to date and remaining challenges work associated with 1) bringing in making MPAS-Land Ice as a new ACME model component, 2) adding the necessary software infrastructure required to facilitate coupling between couple MPAS-Land Ice and to other ACME model components, and 3) simulating increasingly complex ice flow in idealized and realistic simulations of staged complexity, aimed at verifying and validating settings, in order to verify and validate MPAS-Land Ice when run as a coupled model ACME component within ACME.