Thermal forcing inputs for the MALI-SORRM simulations

Description This dataset contains the thermal forcing (TF) input files in netCDF format used for δT calibration and as forcing for MPAS-Albany Land Ice (MALI; Hoffman et al., 2018) control and projection simulations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet from 2000-2100 described within Shafer et al. (submitted). The TF fields within these files were initially generated by E3SMv2.1-SORRM (Comeau et al., 2025), an E3SM configuration which includes ice-shelf cavities, and were subsequently interpolated and averaged in time (1 year). The vertical dimension includes 30 equally-spaced levels with 60 m thickness, and a horizontal resolution of 4-20km, consistent with the horizontal MALI ice-sheet mesh. TF is generated for three different ensemble members ("701", "751", and "801") as well as the ensemble-mean ("ensmean"). Our calibration and control simulations use TF from E3SMv2.1-SORRM historical (1970-1999) and our projections use TF combined from E3SMv2.1-SORRM historical (2000-2015) and E3SMv2.1-SORRM SSP3-7.0 (2015-2100). Files mali-ocean-forcing.v2_1_SORRM_0701_2000-2100.20250121.nc (projection) mali-ocean-forcing.v2_1_SORRM_0751_2000-2100.20250121.nc (projection) mali-ocean-forcing.v2_1_SORRM_0801_2000-2100.20250121.nc (projection) mali-ocean-forcing.v2_1_SORRM_ensmean.20241130_2000-2100.nc (projection) mali-ocean-forcing.v2_1_SORRM_ENSMEAN_1970-1999_MEAN_withMesh_no_xtime.20241130.nc (calibration and control) References Comeau, D., Price, S., Asay-Davis, X., et al. The DOE E3SM v2.1 Cryosphere configuration: Antarctic ice-shelf basal melt projections through 2100. ESS Open Archive. 10 October 2025. Hoffman, M. J., Perego, M., Price, S. F., Lipscomb, W. H., Zhang, T., Jacobsen, D., Tezaur, I., Salinger, A. G., Tuminaro, R., and Bertagna, L.: MPAS-Albany Land Ice (MALI): a variable-resolution ice sheet model for Earth system modeling using Voronoi grids, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3747–3780, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3747-2018, 2018.