Presenters-0038
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CTSP: Coupling of Tectonic and Surface Processes
Methods, challenges and uncertainty in modeling tectonic processes
Abstract
The computational geodynamics community uses a diverse suite of methods and software to model solid Earth deformation across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Within the discipline of computational tectonics, a wide variety of options exists to model non-linear deformation of the lithosphere and convecting mantle, which range from CIG-supported software to widely used software by individual research groups to closed-source proprietary commercial codes. This presentation will review the available methods, open-source community resources, state-of-the-art applications and some of the numerical challenges associated with modeling non-linear tectonic processes. In particular, we will highlight the wide range of difficulties for efficiency, accuracy, computational analysis, storage, reproducibility, uncertainty quantification and verification. Last, we will present some solutions to these challenges in the context of multi-physics simulations and code coupling, with an outlook towards integration between the surface processes and lithospheric dynamics community.
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