Development of a total variation diminishing (TVD) Sea ice transport scheme and its application in an ocean (SCHISM v5.11) and sea ice (Icepack v1.3.4) coupled model on unstructured grids
As the demand for increased resolution and complexity in unstructured sea ice models is growing, a more advanced sea ice transport scheme is needed. In this study, we couple the Semi-implicit Cross-scale Hydro-science Integrated System Model (SCHISM) with Icepack, the column physics package of the s...
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| Language: | English |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2023-236 https://gmd.copernicus.org/preprints/gmd-2023-236/ |
| Summary: | As the demand for increased resolution and complexity in unstructured sea ice models is growing, a more advanced sea ice transport scheme is needed. In this study, we couple the Semi-implicit Cross-scale Hydro-science Integrated System Model (SCHISM) with Icepack, the column physics package of the sea ice model CICE; a key step is to implement a total variation diminishing (TVD) transport scheme for the multi-class sea ice module in the coupled model. Compared with the upwind scheme and a central difference scheme, the TVD transport scheme is found to have better performance for both idealized and realistic cases, and meets the requirements for conservation, accuracy, efficiency (even with very high resolution), and strict monotonicity. The coupled model for the Arctic Ocean successfully reproduces the long-term changes in the sea ice extent, the sea ice boundary and concentration observation from the satellite. |
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