diff --git a/components/mpas-albany-landice/src/Registry.xml b/components/mpas-albany-landice/src/Registry.xml
index a6bf14cc9664..6791531aa156 100644
--- a/components/mpas-albany-landice/src/Registry.xml
+++ b/components/mpas-albany-landice/src/Registry.xml
@@ -301,14 +301,14 @@
 		/>
                 <nml_option name="config_crevasse_water_depth_source" type="character" default_value="scalar" units="unitless"
                             description="Source of water depth in crevasses for use with crevasse-depth calving law."
-                            possible_values="'data' (read from input file), 'scalar' (specified by config_crevasse_water_depth), or 'scaled_smb' (a specific fraction of negative SMB)"
+                            possible_values="'data' (read from input file), 'scalar' (specified by config_crevasse_water_depth), 'scaled_smb_cumulative' (accmulates a specific fraction of negative SMB until SMB is no longer negative, at which point it resets), or 'scaled_smb_instantaneous' (proportional to instantaneous negative SMB)."
                 />
                 <nml_option name="config_crevasse_water_depth" type="real" default_value="0.0" units="m"
                             description="Water depth in crevasses for Nick et al. (2010) crevasse depth calving law."
                             possible_values="any non-negative real value"
                 />
                 <nml_option name="config_smb_fraction_to_water_depth" type="real" default_value="1.0" units="unitless"
-                            description="Fraction of surface mass balance to convert to retain as water depth in crevasses for Nick et al. (2010) crevasse depth calving law."
+                        description="Fraction of surface mass balance to convert to retain as water depth in crevasses for Nick et al. (2010) crevasse depth calving law.  When 'config_crevasse_water_depth_source'='scaled_smb_cumulative', this is a scaling of the melt volume on each time step.  When 'config_crevasse_water_depth_source' = 'scaled_smb_instantaneous', this is a direct proportionality between the negative SMB and crevasse water depth.  For example, a value of 4.7472e4 would convert a melt rate of 0.001053 kg/m2/s (10 cm/day, a representative Greenland ablation zone melt rate) to a 50 m crevasse water depth (a representative crevasse depth).  This option is meant to be used for situations like monthly mean melt rates."
                             possible_values="any non-negative real value"
                 />
                 <nml_option name="config_ismip6_retreat_k" type="real" default_value="-170.0" units="m (m^3 s^-1)^-0.4 deg. C^-1"
diff --git a/components/mpas-albany-landice/src/mode_forward/mpas_li_calving.F b/components/mpas-albany-landice/src/mode_forward/mpas_li_calving.F
index 6f4ef09fe1d9..451c4715f62e 100644
--- a/components/mpas-albany-landice/src/mode_forward/mpas_li_calving.F
+++ b/components/mpas-albany-landice/src/mode_forward/mpas_li_calving.F
@@ -4074,7 +4074,7 @@ subroutine crevasse_depth_calving(domain, err)
          crevasseWaterDepth(:) = config_crevasse_water_depth
       elseif (trim(config_crevasse_water_depth_source) == "data") then
          ! Do nothing. This was already retrieved above.
-      elseif (trim(config_crevasse_water_depth_source) == "scaled_smb") then
+      elseif (trim(config_crevasse_water_depth_source) == "scaled_smb_cumulative") then
          where (sfcMassBalApplied < 0.0_RKIND)
              crevasseWaterDepth = crevasseWaterDepth + &
                  (-1.0_RKIND * config_smb_fraction_to_water_depth * &
@@ -4082,8 +4082,11 @@ subroutine crevasse_depth_calving(domain, err)
          elsewhere
              crevasseWaterDepth = 0.0_RKIND
          endwhere
+      elseif (trim(config_crevasse_water_depth_source) == "scaled_smb_instantaneous") then
+         crevasseWaterDepth = config_smb_fraction_to_water_depth * max(0.0_RKIND, -1.0_RKIND * sfcMassBalApplied)
       else
-         call mpas_log_write("config_crevasse_water_depth_source must be set to 'scalar', 'data', or 'scaled_smb'.", MPAS_LOG_ERR)
+         call mpas_log_write("config_crevasse_water_depth_source must be set to 'scalar', 'data', 'scaled_smb_cumulative', " // &
+                             "or 'scaled_smb_instantaneous'.", MPAS_LOG_ERR)
          err = 1
          return
       endif