CICE-Consortium/CICE: CICE Version 6.5.0 ...

• Main Authors: Elizabeth Hunke, Richard Allard, David A. Bailey, Philippe Blain, Anthony Craig, Frederic Dupont, Alice DuVivier, Robert Grumbine, David Hebert, Marika Holland, Nicole Jeffery, Jean-Francois Lemieux, Robert Osinski, Till Rasmussen, Mads Ribergaard, Roach, Lettie, Andrew Roberts, Matthew Turner, Michael Winton, Worthen, Denise
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: sea ice model, CICE, Icepack; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10056499; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10056499

CICE6.5.0 updates CICE6.4.2 from September 2023 and includes Icepack1.4.0. This release updates the C-grid solver to make it more robust. It also includes the first updates in Icepack from the E3SM integration. Some Icepack interfaces have changed. Other important changes include the frazil coupling implementation, addition of the 5-band snicar shortwave feature, and an update of the JRA55 tx1 grid forcing. Finally, the cicedynB directory has been removed and renamed to cicedyn. Important NOTES This release improves the robustness of the C-grid solver and can be considered the first fully supported release of the C-grid feature. Icepack was updated with non-backward-compatible interface changes. More details can be seen in the Icepack1.4.0 release notes. CICE tx1 grid JRA55 forcing from prior versions was incorrect, this has been fixed. Major Changes Update areafact calculation remapping advection and set l_fixed_area to true for C grid solutions (This changes answers slightly with remap advection and ...