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sea-ice (Adrian Turner)
- Improved snow model (Nicole Jeffery)
- Icebergs*
- Unified ridging and form drag (with Andrew Roberts, NPS?)
- Improved radiation extinction in snow (SNCR)*
- MPAS-Seaice buoy simulator
- Improve salinity coupling between ocean and sea ice
- Remaining sea ice metrics for coupled simulations (2/9 completed)
- Performance enhancements
- Concurrent halo exchanges
- Equatorial grid culling in coupler
land-ice (Stephen Price)
- Improved analysis and validation (standalone and coupled)
- mproved calving
- spin up initialization
- Sub-glacial hydrology and basal processes
- Spatially-temporally varying sea-level forcing at land ice front
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- Couple icebergs from land ice to sea ice via coupler
- time-variable footprint of land / ocean / sea-ice / atmosphere / land ("dynamic fractions")
- finalization/testing of boundary layer melt scheme in coupler (migrate out of MPAS-O)
- Self-attraction for regional SLR
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- Tides
- needed for estuary modeling project
- global / regional
- Variable time step
- would allow two-way coupling of open to coastal system models
- key performance opportunity
- Implicit / explicit tradeoffs
- Land inundation
- wetting / drying between land and free surface (see also ocean-ice sheet wetting / drying)
- Surface wave model
- needed for inundation modeling
- needed for improved ocean boundary layer modeling
- Coastal BGC - Coupled river-estuary-coastal ocean reaction eqs.
- includes inorganic carbon chemistry
- extending BGC into the coastal ocean system
- Sediment transport
- needed for the evolution of the coastline and BGC processes
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