CICE-Consortium/Icepack: Icepack1.2.0 ...

• Main Authors: Hunke, Elizabeth, Allard, Richard, Bailey, David A., Blain, Philippe, Craig, Tony, Dupont, Frederic, DuVivier, Alice, Grumbine, Robert, Hebert, David, Holland, Marika, Jeffery, Nicole, Jean-Francois Lemieux, Rasmussen, Till, Ribergaard, Mads, Roach, Lettie, Roberts, Andrew, Turner, Matthew, Winton, Michael
• Format: Software
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2019
• Subjects: sea ice model, Icepack; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3568288; https://zenodo.org/record/3568288

Icepack version 1.2.0 is being released with CICE6.1.0. This release adds the joint thickness and floe size distribution (FSD) feature as well as other technical enhancements. Because of changes in several interfaces noted below, this version is NOT backwards compatible with prior versions. We continue to work toward a set of interfaces for Icepack that are flexible, extensible and easy to maintain, so that future Icepack upgrades minimize the amount of changes required in host models. Major changes: Add the joint thickness and floe size distribution (FSD) of L. Roach and colleagues. This introduces a non backwards compatible change to icepack_step_therm1 due to a new argument, fside. #281 #286 #288 Enhancements: Update Icepack interface calls to use keywords in the Icepack driver #282 Technical updates and interface refactoring #285, #289 Rename interface routines in icepack_mushy_physics and add them to icepack_intfc temperature_mush -> icepack_mushy_temperature_mush liquid_fraction -> ...