Abstract Iceberg calving, the process where icebergs detach from glaciers, remains poorly understood. Moreover, few parameterizations of calving can easily be integrated into numerical models to accurately capture observations, resulting in large uncertainties projected sea level rise. Recent efforts have focused on estimating crevasse depths assuming tensile failure occurs when crevasses fully...

In the recent years, many international centers for numerical weather prediction and climate modeling have adopted in their operational codes a semiLagrangian scheme for transport. This numerical technique became very popular due to its stability and accuracy properties. The time step is only restricted by accuracy and not by a CFL stability condition. In a joint effort with CPTEC/INPE (the Bra...