oggm.tasks.mass_conservation_inversion

oggm.tasks.mass_conservation_inversion(gdir, glen_a=None, fs=None, write=True, filesuffix='', water_level=None, t_lambda=None)

Compute the glacier thickness along the flowlines

More or less following Farinotti et al., (2009).

Parameters:

gdiroggm.GlacierDirectory

the glacier directory to process

glen_afloat

glen’s creep parameter A. Defaults to cfg.PARAMS.

fsfloat

sliding parameter. Defaults to cfg.PARAMS.

write: bool

default behavior is to compute the thickness and write the results in the pickle. Set to False in order to spare time during calibration.

filesuffixstr

add a suffix to the output file

water_levelfloat

to compute volume below water level - adds an entry to the output dict

t_lambdafloat

defining the angle of the trapezoid walls (see documentation). Defaults to cfg.PARAMS.

Notes

Files written to the glacier directory:

inversion_output.pkl

List of dicts containing the output data from the inversion.