CICE-Consortium/Icepack: Icepack 1.2.1

• Main Authors: Elizabeth Hunke, Richard Allard, David A. Bailey, Philippe Blain, Anthony Craig, Frederic Dupont, Alice DuVivier, Robert Grumbine, David Hebert, Marika Holland, Nicole Jeffery, Jean-Francois Lemieux, Robert Osinski, Till Rasmussen, Mads Ribergaard, Lettie Roach, Andrew Roberts, Matthew Turner, Michael Winton
• Format: Software
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: sea ice model; Icepack; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3712299; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3712299

Icepack version 1.2.1 is being released with CICE6.1.1. This is a minor release update from the Icepack1.2.0 release in December, 2019. This release fixes a couple of bugs in the floe size distribution implementation. The ability to run on Mac and Linux computers was added by leveraging conda to install compilers and other supporting software. Documentation was updated as well. Bug fixes: Update to wave fracture including bug fix #299, changes answers for fsd12 cases Update wavespec convergence algorithm to fix bug, reduce memory, and improve performance in the random option implementation, #305 Change order of operations in albedo calculation for restart consistency #303, does not change answers in standard test cases Enhancements: Add adaptive timestepping for FSD lateral melt and growth #298 Update machines/compilers for izumi #295, for cori #304 Add laptop/linux capability via conda #296 Fix nt_zbgc_frac and n_aero initialization in icepack driver #300 #302 Documentation: Add html anchors when reporting results #290 Update community bulletin board/forum links #291 Add information for contributing #293 Update documentation #292, #305 Update copyright and internal version number #301