CICE-Consortium/CICE Version 6.0.0.alpha ...

• Main Authors: Hunke, Elizabeth, Allard, Richard, Bailey, David, Craig, Anthony, Damsgaard, Anders, Dupont, Frederic, DuVivier, Alice, Holland, Marika, Jeffery, Nicole, Jean-Francois Lemieux, Newman, Christopher, Roberts, Andrew, Turner, Adrian, Turner, Matthew, Winton, Michael
• Format: Software
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: sea ice model, Icepack; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1205675; https://zenodo.org/record/1205675

This is a preliminary, "alpha" release for CICE version 6. There have been numerous code modifications since version 5.1.2 (2015), including a major restructuring and refactoring of the code. Many of these changes are outlined below, some with links to the code changes themselves. The primary purpose of this alpha release is to provide a DOI number for referencing this CICE repository and the current code. This version of the code has been minimally tested; a number of upgrades, new tests and other modifications to this code base will occur before CICE version 6 released for production simulations. Important changes to the code since CICE v5.1.2 Background: CICE v5.1.2 was tagged at r954 of the subversion trunk. The last commit to the trunk was r1134. All changes after that were merged into "colpkg" branches. The rasm_colpkg branch was the starting point for what became the new github CICE repository. Subversion revision numbers not linked below [rnnnn] were in private branches of the svn repository and ... : Documentation available from http://cice-consortium-cice.readthedocs.io/en/master/index.html# ...