mccarthy

Copyright 2010--2026 Ed Bueler

This repository contains slides, notes, exercises, and computer programs for numerical glacier and ice sheet modeling. These materials have been used for the International Summer School in Glaciology, McCarthy, AK in years 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024, and 2026.

Download

Download all materials by one of these methods:

• use the releases page for a .zip/.tar.gz archive

• clone or shallow clone this repository:

  git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/bueler/mccarthy.git

The optional depth=1 setting reduces the download size by not getting the history, which most users will not need.

Slides, exercises, and notes

The PDF slides slides/slides-2026.pdf cover the essential material in the briefest way. They are supported by Python codes in py/. There are exercises and notes which are aligned to the slides, and also support them.

Python programs

The Python codes in subdirectory py/ solve surface kinematic equation (SKE) and shallow ice approximation (SIA) problems, as demonstrated in the notes and slides. See the README there.

Older material

Older and deprecated material is in the form of PDF notes (see old/notes/), slides (see slides/old/, and Matlab/Octave programs (see old/mfiles/). Even older versions (2009--2014) of this material lives in the repo github.com/bueler/karthaus.