PISM: a Parallel Ice Sheet Model
DOCUMENTATION

Checkout stable source code branch by subversion from https://gna.org/projects/pism (recommended): svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/pism/branches/stable0.1 pism0.1

Download gzipped tarball    here    (if you feel you must).

User's documentation (for stable branch): 

• User's Manual. (PDF; includes installation instructions)
• Installation of PISM for Ubuntu (and other Debian) Linux should be smoothest:  Notes on the process.  (This avoids building PETSc from source.)
  
• A three page executive summary of PISM. (PDF)

Developer's documentation (for stable branch):       

• Reference Manual.  (PDF)   [DRAFT; automatically generated from source files by doxygen]
• C++ class browser (automatically generated from source files by doxygen): Generate this from downloaded source by   cd doc/ && make   Then use a web browser to view  doxy/html/index.html
• PISM is a PETSc program; see www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/
• PISM and PETSc are based on MPI; see www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/
• PISM uses NetCDF as a file format; see www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/
• PISM produces and reads NetCDF files which attempt to be CF 1.0 compliant; see cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/
  

Development version checkout:

• See PISM source code repository  https://gna.org/projects/pism to browse source repository, read news, view bugs, and tasks.
• Checkout "trunk" (current development branch) by subversion:

Supporting documentation (journal articles):

• Ed Bueler, Jed Brown, and Craig Lingle (2007).  Exact solutions to the thermomechanically coupled shallow ice approximation: effective tools for verification, J. Glaciol. 53 (no. 182), 499-516.
• Ed Bueler, Craig S. Lingle, Jed A. Brown (2007). Fast computation of a viscoelastic deformable earth model for ice flow simulations, Ann. Glaciol. 46, 97-105.
• C. Schoof (2006). A variational approach to ice stream flow,  J. Fluid Mech., 556, 227-251.
• R. Calov and R. Greve (2005). Correspondence: A semi-analytical solution for the positive degree-day  model with stochastic temperature variations, J. Glaciol. 51 (no. 172), 173-175.
  
• Ed Bueler, Craig S. Lingle, Jed A. Kallen-Brown, David N. Covey, and Latrice N. Bowman (2005). Exact solutions and the verification of numerical models for isothermal ice sheets, J. Glaciol. 51 (no. 173), 291-306.
• D. L. Goldsby and D. L. Kohlstedt (2001). Superplastic deformation of ice: experimental observations, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 11017-11030
  

Supporting documentation (technical reports):

• Ed Bueler, An exact solution to the temperature equation in a column of ice and bedrock, preprint arXiv:0710.1314, 2007.
• Ed Bueler and Jed Brown, On exact solutions for cold, shallow, and thermocoupled ice sheets, preprint arXiv:physics/0610106, 2006.
  
• Ed Bueler, Craig S. Lingle, Jed A. Kallen-Brown, Computation of combined spherical-elastic and viscous-half-space earth model for ice sheet simulation, preprint arXiv:physics/0606074, 2006.
• Ed Bueler, Construction of steady state solutions for isothermal shallow ice sheets, UAF DMS Technical Report 03-02, 2003.

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