CICE-Consortium/CICE: CICE Version 6.1.4 ...

• 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: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2020
• Subjects: sea ice model, CICE, Icepack; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4359860; https://zenodo.org/record/4359860

CICE6.1.4 is a minor update of CICE6.1.3 from August, 2020. It includes Icepack1.2.4. This release includes a new implicit solver for the VP rheology as well as a couple minor bug fixes in Icepack and in the box2001 forcing case. It also includes a couple changes to the namelists and updates to documentation. Major changes: Add an implicit solver for the VP rheology based on Picard iteration. This is a significant new option for solving the dynamics. It includes several new namelist variables and is triggered by setting kdyn=3 in the CICE namelist. The implementation is documented in the user guide and in the Pull Request. This is an initial version and is still being fully validated . #491 Bug fixes: Update Icepack to Icepack1.2.4. This includes two bug fixes. First, an extra and slightly different value for the floeshape parameter was removed. Now floeshape is defined consistently throughout as 0.66. This will change answers slightly but only for fsd cases . Second, the convergence check of Z/L, ustar, ...