BibTeX
@ARTICLE{
         Hascoet2018Sts,
       crossref = "Christianson2018Sio",
       author = "Laurent Hasco{\"e}t and Mathieu Morlighem",
       title = "Source-to-source adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation of an ice sheet model written in
         {C}",
       journal = "Optimization Methods \& Software",
       volume = "33",
       number = "4--6",
       pages = "829--843",
       year = "2018",
       publisher = "Taylor \& Francis",
       doi = "10.1080/10556788.2017.1396600",
       url = "https://doi.org/10.1080/10556788.2017.1396600",
       eprint = "https://doi.org/10.1080/10556788.2017.1396600",
       abstract = "Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) has become a powerful tool to improve our
         understanding of the Earth System, because it can generate adjoint code which permits efficient
         calculation of gradients that are essential to sensitivity studies, inverse problems, parameter
         estimation and data assimilation. Most source-to-source transformation tools, however, have been
         designed for FORTRAN and support for C remains limited. Here we use the Adjoinable Land Ice Flow
         model (ALIF), a C clone of the C++ Ice Sheet System Model (ISSM) and employ source-to-source AD to
         produce its adjoint code. We present the first running source-to-source adjoint of ALIF, and its
         application to basal drag inversion under Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica. ALIF brought several
         challenges to AD tool development, such as the correct treatment of the context code, which does not
         compute the differentiable function, but controls this computation through the setup of data
         structures, including possible aliasing, as well as data-flow reversal in the presence of pointers
         and dynamic memory, which are ubiquitous in codes such as ISSM and ALIF. We present the strategies
         we have developed to overcome these challenges.",
       booktitle = "Special issue of Optimization Methods \& Software: Advances in
         Algorithmic Differentiation",
       editor = "Bruce Christianson and Shaun A. Forth and Andreas Griewank"
}