Deep learning speeds up ice flow modelling by several orders of magnitude - Inria - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique
Journal Articles Journal of Glaciology Year : 2021

Deep learning speeds up ice flow modelling by several orders of magnitude

Abstract

This paper introduces the Instructed Glacier Model (IGM) – a model that simulates ice dynamics, mass balance and its coupling to predict the evolution of glaciers, icefields or ice sheets. The novelty of IGM is that it models the ice flow by a Convolutional Neural Network, which is trained from data generated with hybrid SIA + SSA or Stokes ice flow models. By doing so, the most computationally demanding model component is substituted by a cheap emulator. Once trained with representative data, we demonstrate that IGM permits to model mountain glaciers up to 1000 × faster than Stokes ones on Central Processing Units (CPU) with fidelity levels above 90% in terms of ice flow solutions leading to nearly identical transient thickness evolution. Switching to the GPU often permits additional significant speed-ups, especially when emulating Stokes dynamics or/and modelling at high spatial resolution. IGM is an open-source Python code which deals with two-dimensional (2-D) gridded input and output data. Together with a companion library of trained ice flow emulators, IGM permits user-friendly, highly efficient and mechanically state-of-the-art glacier and icefields simulations.
Fichier principal
Vignette du fichier
JOG-21-0059.pdf (7.2 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Vignette du fichier
vignette.png (1.88 Mo) Télécharger le fichier
Origin Files produced by the author(s)
Format Figure, Image

Dates and versions

hal-03525458 , version 1 (13-01-2022)

Identifiers

Cite

Guillaume Jouvet, Guillaume Cordonnier, Byungsoo Kim, Martin Lüthi, Andreas Vieli, et al.. Deep learning speeds up ice flow modelling by several orders of magnitude. Journal of Glaciology, In press, pp.1-14. ⟨10.1017/jog.2021.120⟩. ⟨hal-03525458⟩
91 View
124 Download

Altmetric

Share

More