CICE Consortium Progress and Plans, October 2020

• Main Authors: Hunke, Elizabeth, Roberts, Andrew
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: sea ice model, CICE, Icepack; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4122286; https://zenodo.org/record/4122286

FY20 was a busy year for the CICE Consortium, with 4 releases each of Icepack and CICE, a user workshop and tutorial, expanding Consortium participation from our user base, and a broadening range of user applications, setting the standard for community collaboration. Major Icepack upgrades include a joint thickness and floe size distribution with adaptive timestepping, water isotope tracers, and shortwave enhancements within and below the ice. In addition, CICE now offers an implicit solver for viscous-plastic dynamics and improved testing capabilities. This presentation places these developments and future upgrades in the context of planned E3SM enhancements and scientific studies. : This presentation was given for the DOE ESMD/E3SM PI meeting in late October, 2020. It includes audio narration. LA-UR--20-28461 : {"references": ["Hunke, E., Allard, R., Blain, P. et al. (17 authors, 2020) Should Sea-Ice Modeling Tools Designed for Climate Research Be Used for Short-Term Forecasting? Curr. Clim. Change Rep. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40641-020-00162-y"]}