CICE-Consortium/Icepack: Icepack 1.2.3 ...

• Main Authors: Hunke, Elizabeth, Allard, Richard, Bailey, David A., Blain, Philippe, Craig, Anthony, Dupont, Frederic, DuVivier, Alice, Grumbine, Robert, Hebert, David, Holland, Marika, Jeffery, Nicole, Jean-Francois Lemieux, Osinski, Robert, Rasmussen, Till, Ribergaard, Mads, 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.4004982; https://zenodo.org/record/4004982

Icepack version 1.2.3 is being released with CICE6.1.3. This is a minor release update from the Icepack1.2.2 release in June, 2020. This release fixes a couple of minor bugs in the old aerosol scheme and in the snow melt term. It also revises the shortwave redistribution option and adds a few other features. Documentation was updated as well. Major changes: Bug fixes: Fix aerosol tracer bug #330. This fixes a bug in the old aerosol scheme (tr_aero). Some quantities were divided by aice and should not have been. This will changes answers for some configurations with tr_aero=.true. Fix snow melt bug #328. This fixes a bug in the thermodynamics. When the sea ice completely melts away, the final little bit of snow melt was not added to the melts array. This will probably change answers for most cases, but not science. Enhancements: Update and Document C Preprocessor (CPP) flags. #329 Add shortwave redistribution option including sw_redist, sw_frac, and sw_dtemp namelist. This could change answers, but proper ...