CICE-Consortium/Icepack: Icepack 1.2.5

• 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, Andrew Roberts, Matthew Turner, Michael Winton
• Format: Software
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: sea ice model; Icepack; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/4671132; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4671132

Icepack version 1.2.5 is being released with CICE6.2.0. This is a minor release update from the Icepack1.2.4 release in December, 2020. This release fixes a minor bug in the zsaliniity implementation and updates some other features in small ways. The most significant update is a change in the default emissivity value to 0.985. Bug fixes: Initialization of salinity in zsalinity parameterization #346 Enhancements: Move shortwave absorbed in negligible snow layers to surface. #355 Add abort in ITD for rare case where (hicen_init(n+1) - hicen_init(n)) <= 0) #337 Modify error tolerance for rare mush thermo failure. #352 Adjust emissivity to 0.985, set default NBGCLYR=1. #348 Add test for zsalinity parameterization #344 Add automated Github Actions testing on Pull Requests and Pushes to master and releases #347, Update Github Actions script #359 Update color references in test results script #359 Update conda macos implementation #359 Port to Compy #353, #356 Documentation: Update revision number and fix error in one reference #358 Update documentation on addition diagnostic output. #331 Update readthedocs requirements for bibtex #345 Update copyright year #349 #350