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Glaciology examples

One executed example per breakthrough in Breakthroughs in Glaciology, in chronological order, each with an asserted check of the result it shows. Download the Python source or notebook from each page. Glaciology: units, equations and validation records units and limits; all examples use deterministic synthetic inputs and require no downloads.

Agassiz’s ice age (1840)

Agassiz's ice age (1840)

Forbes’s viscous glacier flow (1843)

Forbes's viscous glacier flow (1843)

Jamieson’s glacial isostasy (1865)

Jamieson's glacial isostasy (1865)

Stefan’s sea-ice growth (1891)

Stefan's sea-ice growth (1891)

Haskell’s mantle viscosity from rebound (1935)

Haskell's mantle viscosity from rebound (1935)

Nye’s perfectly plastic ice sheet (1951)

Nye's perfectly plastic ice sheet (1951)

Glen’s flow law (1955)

Glen's flow law (1955)

Nye’s crevasse depth (1955)

Nye's crevasse depth (1955)

Weertman’s sliding law (1957)

Weertman's sliding law (1957)

Meier’s glacier mass balance (1962)

Meier's glacier mass balance (1962)

Dansgaard’s isotope thermometer (1964)

Dansgaard's isotope thermometer (1964)

Dansgaard and Johnsen’s age-depth model (1969)

Dansgaard and Johnsen's age-depth model (1969)

Weertman’s marine ice-sheet instability (1974)

Weertman's marine ice-sheet instability (1974)

Mahaffy’s shallow-ice model (1976)

Mahaffy's shallow-ice model (1976)

Barnola’s Vostok CO2 record (1987)

Barnola's Vostok CO2 record (1987)

Schoof’s grounding-line flux (2007)

Schoof's grounding-line flux (2007)