FMS Sea Ice Simulator

This document describes a sea ice simulator (SIS) for use in coupled models under the FMS framework. FMS is the Flexible Modelling System developed at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. The system is designed to be modular so that SIS may be easily replaced in an FMS coupled model by...

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Main Author: Michael Winton
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2001
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Sea ice
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.22.3028
http://www.gfdl.gov/~mw/docs/sis.ps
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Summary:This document describes a sea ice simulator (SIS) for use in coupled models under the FMS framework. FMS is the Flexible Modelling System developed at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. The system is designed to be modular so that SIS may be easily replaced in an FMS coupled model by another sea ice model following the FMS coupling interface standard. SIS calculates the concentration, thickness, temperature, brine content, and snow cover of an arbitrary number of sea ice thickness categories (including open water) as well as the motion of the complete pack. Additionally, the model is responsible for calculating ice/ocean fluxes and communicating fluxes between the ocean and atmosphere models globally. Contents 1 The FMS Driver and Sea Ice Coupling 2 2 Thermodynamics 2 2.1 Temperature calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Ice and snow mass changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3 Dynamic.

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