Publications
Impact of increasing Antarctic glacial freshwater release on regional sea-ice cover in the Southern Ocean.
Merino, N.; Le Sommer, J; Durand, G; Jourdain, N; Goose, H. Madec, G;Mathiot, P. 2016
In Review
>>Antarctic icebergs melt over the Southern Ocean: climatology and impact on sea ice.
Merino, N.; Le Sommer, J; Durand, G; Jourdain, N; Madec, G;Mathiot, P; Tournadre, J. 2016
>> Assimilation of Antarctic velocity observations provides evidence for uncharted pinning points.
Fürst, J. J.; Durand, G.; Gillet-Chaulet, F.; Merino, N.; Tavard, L.; Mouginot, J.; Gourmelen, N.; Gagliardini, O. 2015
>> NEMO–ICB (v1.0): interactive icebergs in the NEMO ocean model globally configured at eddy-permitting resolution
R. Marsh, V. O. Ivchenko, N. Skliris, S. Alderson, G. R. Bigg, G. Madec, A. T. Blaker, Y. Aksenov, B. Sinha, A. C. Coward, J. Le Sommer, N. Merino, and V. B. Zalesny. 2015
Oral conferences
>> A model-based climatology of antarctic icebergs melt over the Southern Ocean. IUGG Prague 2015
J. Le Sommer, G. Durand, N. Jourdain, G. Madec P. Mathiot 2015
>> Modelled icebergs freshwater flux distribution in the Southern Ocean.
J. Le Sommer, G. Durand, G. Madec P. Mathiot 2015
Posters
>> NEMO_Elmer/Ice in the context of MISOMIP tests.
Merino, N., Jourdain, N., Durand, G., Le Sommer, J., Gillet-Chaullet, F., Mathiot, P., Gagliardini. O. IGS Meeting 2016, San Diego
PDF File Description: Preliminary results of the LGGE group in Grenoble for the Elmer/Ice model in MISMIP+ exercises and NEMO model in ISOMIP+ exercises./h5>
>> Contribution of increasing glacial freshwater fluxes to observed trends in Antarctic sea-ice
Merino, N., Le Sommer, J., Durand, G., Jourdain, N., Goosse H., Madec, G., Mathiot, P. Ocean Science 2016, New Orleans.
PDF File Description: Description and preliminary results of a set of model experiments with realistic changes corresponsing to the recent observed trends in the glacial freswater fluxes and the atmospheric forcing. We study the impact of these change in the sea-ice and the role of the increasing Antarctic mass discharge in the sea-ice concentration/h5>
>> Impact ot the observed changes in Antarctic ice sheet mass balance on Southern Ocean properties and sea-ice
Merino, N., Le Sommer, J., Durand, G., Jourdain, N., Madec, G., Mathiot, P. IGS Meeting 2015, Cambridge
PDF File Description: Description of the experiment set up based on the reconstruction of two glacial freshwater scenario combined with iceberg modelling. Description of the imrpoved version of the iceberg model and preliminary results.
>> Evolution of ocean freshwater forcing from Antarctic ice shelves over the past 20 years.
Merino, N., Durand, G., Le Sommer, J., Madec, G., Mathiot, P. IGS Metting 2014, Chamonix
PDF File Description: Description of the reconstruction of a scenario of glacial freshwater from a recent estimation of ice shelve mass loss.
>> Recession of Thwaites Glacier: inferring relevant processes using the ice sheet model Elmer/Ice.
Merino, N., Durand, G., Gillet-Chaulet, F., Gourmelen, N., Stumpf, A., Lampert, T., & Gagliardini, O. EGU 2014, Wien
PDF File Description: Modelling the dynamics and the interaction with an uncharted pinning point of Thwaites Glacier. Estimation of the recesion of the grounding line using ElmerIce finite elements model. Inverse methodology to infer for the frist time basal friction and ice viscosity from surface velocities.