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GPLASIM
EXOPLASIM
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General Circulation Models Planet Simulator (PlaSim) and PUMA
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This version of PlaSim has been modified to include additional modules
used for simulating climate on geological timescales. This includes a
carbon-silicate weathering model (continents only at this point) and
a glacier model. The glacier model is currently very rudimentary and exists
only to include the effects of ice sheet elevation, and lacks crucial
physics such as spreading, flow, and bedrock denudation.
used for simulating climate on geological timescales (carbon-silicate
weathering on land), different rotation states (i.e. tidally-locked),
different atmosphere masses, and arbitrary input spectrum.

The model has also been adapted to permit a rudimentary glacial model,
with an adaptive glacier mask and (mostly) unbounded land ice thickness
(included in surface geopotential height), but no ice flow, denudation,
or adaptive sea level.

The framework for the glacial model may be adapted in the future to enable
orogeny, such as might be expected from a coupled plate-tectonics model.
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