livvkit — Ice Sheet Validation

The livvkit task runs LIVVkit (Land Ice Verification and Validation Toolkit) for ice sheet model evaluation. It compares climatology files generated by the climo — Climatology Files task against reanalysis datasets.

Parameters

These 4 parameters are specific to the livvkit task.

Parameter	Required	Default	Description
`climo_subsections`	No	`[""]`	List of `[climo]` subtasks to depend on.
`cfg`	No	`"inclusions/livvkit/livvkit_r05.jinja"`	Path to the LIVVkit configuration template.
`icesheets`	No	`"gis,ais"`	Icesheets to analyze: `gis` (Greenland), `ais` (Antarctica).
`sets`	No	`"cmb,smb,energy_racmo,energy_era5,energy_merra2,energy_ceres"`	Validation sets to perform.

Parameters at the top-level

For top-level parameters, see top-level parameters.

Dependencies

Upstream (what livvkit depends on):

climo — Climatology Files — Monthly-lnd climo
ts — Time Series Files – Monthly-lnd ts.

Downstream (what depends on livvkit):

None.

Climo dependency requirements

The livvkit task requires specific [climo] subtasks to be defined:

A grid-native climatology must be generated, assumed to be named land_monthly_climo_native.
For each reanalysis comparison, a corresponding land_monthly_climo_GRID subtask is needed, where GRID is the reanalysis grid name.

Available reanalysis comparisons and their grid names:

racmo_gis, racmo_ais
merra2
era5
ceres (uses the default CMIP6 grid)