greenland¶

The landice/greenland test group runs tests with a coarse (20-km) Greenland mesh.

../../../_images/gis_speed.png — FO velocity solution visualized in Paraview.¶

The test group includes 3 test cases, each of which has one or more steps that are variants on run_model (given other names in the decomposition and restart test cases to distinguish multiple model runs), which performs time integration of the model. There is a fourth test case, high_res_mesh, that creates a variable resolution Greenland Ice Sheet mesh, with the step mesh.

The test cases in this test group can run with either the SIA or FO velocity solvers. Running with the FO solver requires a build of MALI that includes Albany, but the SIA variant of the test can be run without Albany. The FO version uses no-slip basal boundary condition. There is no integration step for the test case high_res_mesh.

config options¶

The high_res_mesh test case uses the default config options below. The other test cases do not use config options.

[high_res_mesh]

# number of levels in the mesh
levels = 10

# distance from ice margin to cull (km).
# Set to a value <= 0 if you do not want
# to cull based on distance from margin.
cull_distance = 10.0

# mesh density parameters
# minimum cell spacing (meters)
min_spac = 3.e3
# maximum cell spacing (meters)
max_spac = 30.e3
# log10 of max speed for cell spacing
high_log_speed = 2.5
# log10 of min speed for cell spacing
low_log_speed = 0.75
# distance at which cell spacing = max_spac
high_dist = 1.e5
# distance within which cell spacing = min_spac
low_dist = 5.e4

# mesh density functions
use_speed = True
use_dist_to_grounding_line = False
use_dist_to_edge = True

smoke_test¶

landice/greenland/smoke_test is the default version of the greenland test case for a short (5-day) test run.

decomposition_test¶

landice/greenland/decomposition_test runs short (5-day) integrations of the model forward in time on 1 (1proc_run step) and then on 4 cores (4proc_run step) to make sure the resulting prognostic variables are bit-for-bit identical between the two runs.

restart_test¶

landice/greenland/2000m/restart_test first run a short (5-day) integration of the model forward in time (full_run step). Then, a second step (restart_run) performs a 3-day, then a 2-day run, where the second begins from a restart file saved by the first. Prognostic variables are compared between the “full” and “restart” runs at year 2 to make sure they are bit-for-bit identical.

high_res_mesh¶

landice/greenland/high_res_mesh creates a variable resolution mesh based on the the config options listed above. This will not be the same as the pre-generated 20 km mesh used in the other three test cases because it uses a newer version of Jigsaw. Note that the basal friction optimization is performed separately and is not part of this test case.