ISOMIP+ prescribes four idealized experiments for ocean models that support ice-shelf cavities. The experiments are designed to improve community understanding of both the models themselves (both their capabilities and their limitation) as well as physical processes involved ice-ocean interactions.
3. provide a basic setup from which a large variety of parameter and process studies could usefully be performed.
-Experiment 4: cold forcing with advancing ice-shelf geometry.
A complete description of the experiments will be published in an article in Geoscientific Model Development, to be submitted in July, 2015.
Example output from POP2x runs includes movies as well as NetCDF files demonstrating the format of the output grid. Participants may find it useful to use these files for their own output, replacing the POP2x results with their own.