cryosphere-links

A Python package to download, plot, and explore polar datasets

earthspy

Monitor and study any place on Earth and in Near Real-Time (NRT) with satellite data

xDEM

A Python module developed by glaciologists for handling DEMs: read/write, coregistration, volume change calculation etc

The (US) National Snow and Ice Data Center

NSIDC Data Tutorials

Jupyter notebook guides to access, subset, transform, and visualize data products from NSIDC

Data and software from NSF Arctic research

A python library for reading, writing, visualizing and manipulating ground temperature data ( )

FreeThaw1D

A fast 1d heat transfer model with phase change ( )

Distributing ground temperature and borehole data using OPeNDAP

Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network (PERMOS)

Matterhorn Permafrost Observatory data ( )

ALPGM

ALpine Parameterized Glacier Model. Deep learning-based regional glacier evolution model ( )

CISM

Community Ice Sheet Model ( )

CFM

Community Firn Model ( )

DEISM ice-sheet-model

DEpth integrated Ice Sheet Model (DEISM)

Elmer/Ice

Open Source Finite Element Software for Ice Sheet, Glaciers and Ice Flow Modelling

Fenics Ice

Ice Sheet model with Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification ( )

flowline-glacier-model

Flowline glacier model by Andy Aschwanden

Energy and Mass Balance Model with focus on firn (part of ISSM) ( , preprint)

glacier-flow-model

Modelling glacier flow, based on the glaciers mass balance and a digital elevation model

icepack

Finite element modeling of glaciers and ice sheets

ICESHEET

Creates ice sheet reconstructions using a perfectly plastic approximation, using ice margins and basal shear stress as inputs

icetools

icetools provides a development environment for numerical ice flow models/simulations

Ice Sheet System Model

a variable-resolution ice sheet model for earth system modeling using voronoi grids

Open Global Glacier Model: a modular open source model for glacier dynamics ( )

Parallel Ice Sheet Model ( )

PyGEM

Python Glacier Evolution Model (PyGEM)

sia-fluxlim

Implementation of a MUSCL-superbee flux limiter to a shallow ice approximation flow code based on finite differences

SImulation COde for POLythermal Ice Sheets

speceis_flowline

Width-parameterized flowline version of the spectral ice sheet model (SpecEIS)

Stochastic implementation of ISSM ( , preprint)

Úa

A large-scale ice-flow model

The Utrecht FinitE voluMe Ice-Sheet Model ( )

VarGlaS

The source code repository for the Variational Glacier Simulator (VarGlaS) code ( )

Yelmo

a 3D ice-sheet-shelf model solving for the coupled dynamics and thermodynamics of the ice sheet system ( )

pypdd

A positive degree day model for glacier surface mass balance ( )

COSIPY

A flexible and user-friendly framework for modeling distributed snow and glacier mass changes ( )

A regional climate model for modelling surface mass balance ( )

cryo_calving_2019

Experiments with a minimal Frontal ablation model added to OGGM

HiDEM

Helsinki Discrete Element Model, a particle model for simulating elastic behaviour, fracture and calving at marine terminating glaciers ( )

SERMeQ

Tool to estimate advance, retreat, and sea level contribution of calving glaciers forced by upstream surface mass balance, based on viscoplastic physics ( )

CCHF

Cryosphere hydrology modeling package written in Matlab ( )

DEBAM/DETIM

Distributed Energy Balance Model (DEBAM) and Distributed Enhanced Temperature Index Model (DETIM): Two Distributed Glacier Surface Mass-Balance and Discharge Models ( , )

Example subglacial hydrology model for teaching. Subglacial processes workshop at Centre for Ice and Climate, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen 7-11 th April 2014

Solves the 1D steady state R-channel equations

Subglacial hydrology and kinetic transient interactions ( )

bod-marine

exact solution to marine ice sheet 1D problem, coming from Bodvardsson (1955)

debadvect

FEM model for englacial debris transport

Glacier initialization

Method to reconstruct estimated glacier states up to 1850

GlacialLakeHazards

Matlab codes from PhD work on glacial lake outburst flood hazards in the Nepal Himalaya

icepack-py

Python bindings and utility scripts for icepack

Rounce2014_debristhickness

Codes associated with deriving the debris thickness of debris-covered glaciers from Landsat thermal imagery

SELEN

Calculates glacial isostatic adjustment and the sea level equation

sia-fve

implicit finite volume element (FVE) method for the shallow ice approximation (SIA) free-boundary problem

Fast Elementary Thermomechanical Ice Sheet Model ( )

Influence of an increasing surface melt over decadal timescales on land terminating outlet glaciers (paper)

A model for global glacier change and sea-level rise ( )

Extended version of the Global Glacier Evolution Model (GloGEM), in which both surface mass balance and ice flow are explicitly accounted for ( )

Glacier Evolution and Runoff Model ( )

3D hybrid ice sheet-shelf model for long-term continental-scale applications ( )

A confined–unconfined aquifer model for subglacial hydrology and its application to the north east Greenland ice stream (paper)

Inversion of a glacier hydrology model (paper)

Mass-conserving subglacial hydrology in the Parallel Ice Sheet Model version 0.6 (paper)

A modeling study of the effect of runoff variability on the effective pressure beneath Russell Glacier, West Greenland (paper)

Modelling distributed and channelized subglacial drainage: the spacing of channels (paper)

Feedbacks between coupled subglacial hydrology and glacier dynamics (paper)

Testing a numerical glacial hydrological model using spring speed‐up events and outburst floods (paper)

A numerical study of hydrologically driven glacier dynamics and subglacial flooding (paper)

Modeling channelized and distributed subglacial drainage in two dimensions (paper)

Global Land Ice Measurememts from Space (GLIMS) / Global Terrestrial Network for Glaciers (GTN-G) Glacier Viewer covering a range of inventories

Interactive glacier apps for educational purposes

Browsing glaciers worldwide and in your proximity

Fluctuations of Glaciers Dataset Browser

Browsing Swiss glaciers on an interactive map

iceplotlib

Plotting tools for PISM using matplotlib and netcdf4-python

DIC_FFT

Detect and quantify surface displacements in multi-temporal images ( )

glaciersat

Tools to observe glaciers from satellite imagery, such as albedo calculation and transient snow line detection

icepyx

Python tools for obtaining and working with ICESat-2 laser altimetry data

Fluctuations of Glaciers with point, elevation band and specific mass balance measurements

Glacier Length Database by Paul Leclercq

Glacier Thickness Dataset with point, elevation band and specific ice thickness measurements

Randolph Glacier Inventory, a global inventory of glacier outlines ( )

World Glacier Inventory

A NASA MEaSUREs project to provide automated, low latency, global glacier flow and elevation change datasets

Glacier Monitoring Switzerland: the Swiss glacier data portal]

Multi-temporal inventory of Austrian glaciers as a shapefile

Educational material about glaciers, powered by OGGM and MyBinder

glacier-graphics

A collection of glacier graphics that can be used for education and outreach

Ed Bueler's Karthaus material

Notes and codes for Ed Bueler's numerical lectures at Karthaus (Italy) Summer School on Ice Sheets and Glaciers

UW_Geodetic_Mass_Budget_Scripts

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Glaciers Dynamics Lecture

Glacier Dynamics lecture by Andy Aschwanden

Glacier & Ice Sheet Dynamics at Georgia Tech

Alex Robel's slides, notes, and code demonstrations for grad/undergrad course in glaciology

GReenland & ANTarctic Ice Sheet Model + Svalbard extension, based on Excel with suggested exercises ( )

js-ism

Reimplementation of GRANTISM in Javascript

bi-annual summer school hosted by University of Alaska in Fairbanks

Lecture notes on Ice Sheet Modelling, Mass Balance, Glacier Hydrology, Remote Sensing, and so on

Ed Bueler's material

Slides, notes, and codes on numerical glacier and ice sheet modeling

Andy Aschwanden's material

Lecture notes and exercises on ice flow and thermodynamics

Lindsey Nicholson's teaching

Materials Lindsey developed for teaching (mainly) about glaciers

All the course material for the "Physics of Glaciers" class

Mauro Werder's material from the subglacial processes workshop Copenhagen

A collection of photos and processes of different glaciers

CICE

CICE sea-ice model

Icepack

sea-ice column physics

SIS2

NOAA-GFDL's Sea Ice Simulator version 2

sea ice model of the NEMO consortium

IceNet

code to train a deep learning seasonal Arctic sea ice forecasting model ( / / )

multi-purpose snow and land-surface model ( )

cosipy

Coupled snowpack and ice surface energy and mass balance model in Python

FSM2

Flexible Snow Model: a multi-physics energy balance model of accumulation and melt of snow on the ground and in forest canopies ( )

snowtools

D. Shean's utilities for working with snow data

Operational snow cover detection from optical multispectral level 2A products ( )

openAMUNDSEN

Modular snow and hydroclimatological modeling framework

TARTES

Two-stream radiative transfer in Snow model, also available as a

snowoptics

Functions to compute spectral albedo and extinction of snow on flat and tilted terrains, also available as a

SMRT

Snow Microwave Radiative Transfer model to calculate scattering of microwave radiation in snow ( )

Community Snow Observations