PISM, a Parallel Ice Sheet Model

The Parallel Ice Sheet Model is an open source, parallel, high-resolution ice sheet model that includes:

• A hierarchy of available stress balances
• Marine ice sheet physics, dynamic calving fronts
• A polythermal, enthalpy-based conservation of energy scheme
• Extensible coupling to atmospheric and ocean models
• Verification and validation tools
• Documentation for users and developers
• Links to MPI and PETSc for parallel simulations
• Use of CF-compliant NetCDF files for input and output

PISM is jointly developed at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). UAF developers are based in the Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Group at the Geophysical Institute.

Please see PISM's manual https://www.pism.io/docs/citing for how to acknowledge the use of PISM and PISM's funding sources. If the manual is not available, please refer to the file doc/sphinx/citing/index.rst in the PISM repository.

Homepage

http://www.pism.io/

Download and Install

See the section Installing PISM on pism.io.

Support

Please e-mail uaf-pism@alaska.edu with questions about PISM.

You can also join the PISM workspace on Slack.

Contributing

Want to contribute? Great! See Contributing to PISM.