The sea ice component of GC5: coupling SI 3 to HadGEM3 using conductive fluxes

We present an overview of the UK's Global Sea Ice model configuration version 9 (GSI9), the sea ice component of the latest Met Office Global Coupled model, GC5. The GC5 configuration will, amongst other uses, form the physical basis for the HadGEM3 (Hadley Centre Global Environment Model versi...

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Published in:Geoscientific Model Development
Main Authors: E. Blockley, E. Fiedler, J. Ridley, L. Roberts, A. West, D. Copsey, D. Feltham, T. Graham, D. Livings, C. Rousset, D. Schroeder, M. Vancoppenolle
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2024
Subjects:
Geology
QE1-996.5
Sea ice
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-6799-2024
https://doaj.org/article/e434713ca00048ce9f79c8b806cab0d7
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Summary:We present an overview of the UK's Global Sea Ice model configuration version 9 (GSI9), the sea ice component of the latest Met Office Global Coupled model, GC5. The GC5 configuration will, amongst other uses, form the physical basis for the HadGEM3 (Hadley Centre Global Environment Model version 3) climate model and UKESM2 (UK Earth System Model version 2) Earth system model that will provide the Met Office Hadley Centre/UK model contributions to CMIP7 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 7). Although UK ocean model configurations have been developed for many years around the NEMO (Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean) ocean modelling framework, the GSI9 configuration is the first UK sea ice model configuration to use the new native NEMO sea ice model, SI 3 (Sea Ice modelling Integrated Initiative). This replaces the CICE (Community Ice CodE) model used in previous configuration versions. In this paper we document the physical and technical options used within the GSI9 sea ice configuration. We provide details of the implementation of SI 3 into the Met Office coupled model and the adaptations required to work with our “conductivity coupling” approach and provide a thorough description of the GC5 coupling methodology. A brief evaluation of sea ice simulated by the GC5 model is included, with results compared to observational references and a previous Global Coupled model version (GC3.1) used for CMIP6, to demonstrate the scientific credibility of the results.

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