Open pat-schmitt opened 1 year ago
Thanks for the report!
Unfortunately I think that for mass-conservation it is necessary to keep it like that (especially for hydro, yes).
This is unfortunate, but I don't think there is a better solution. For non-hydro applications it's probably best to not have negative volumes, maybe people should be informed to clip the data beforehand
When using the fixed-geometry-spinup the volume in the past can become negative. Probably, this is only a problem for small glaciers but can be easily overseen when aggregating the results of multiple glaciers.
I would suggest clipping the value of the volume to zero after the calculation here https://github.com/OGGM/oggm/blob/master/oggm/core/flowline.py#L1266. Not sure if this leads to unwanted site-effects with
run_with_hydro
, but I don't think so.I created the figure with: