Poster Title	CICE Consortium
First Author	Elizabeth Hunke (Unlicensed)
Topic	ocean/ice, updates and plans for the CICE Consortium
Affiliation	Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Title

Progress and Plans for Sea Ice Column Physics from the CICE Consortium

Authors and Contributors

Elizabeth Hunke (Unlicensed), Los Alamos National Laboratory

Richard Allard, Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space Center

David A. Bailey, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Philippe Blain, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Amelie Bouchat, McGill University

Tony Craig, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (CTR)

Frederic Dupont, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Alice DuVivier, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Robert Grumbine, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

David Hebert, Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space Center

Marika Holland, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Nicole Jeffery, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Jean-Francois Lemieux, Environment and Climate Change Canada

Till Rasmussen, Danish Meterological Institute

Mads Ribergaard, Danish Meterological Institute

Lettie Roach, NIWA and University of Washington

Andrew Roberts, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Matt Turner (Unlicensed), Los Alamos National Laboratory

Michael Winton, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Abstract

The CICE Consortium is a group of stakeholders and primary developers of the Los Alamos sea ice model (CICE), formed to maintain the current CICE model for existing and new users, to incorporate and maintain new research and development, and to accelerate scientific sea ice model development and its transfer into operational use. The CICE model was originally developed and maintained by the Department of Energy as a computationally efficient sea ice component for use in fully coupled, atmosphere-ice-ocean-land global circulation models. Over the past two decades, a broad community of climate and weather forecasting groups have adopted and enhanced the code. The CICE Consortium was formed as a vehicle for collaboration in sea ice model support and development as the community continues to use and improve sea ice models. The Consortium is set up as a framework able to evolve with general sea ice model future contributions, in order to fulfill the desire to continue our collaborations in the longer term. Since DOE moved to the MPAS framework for the sea ice component in E3SM and is also supporting development of a new, discrete element sea ice model, the Consortium provides the sea ice column physics, now referred to as Icepack, for these DOE models. Here we provide an update of new sea ice modeling capabilities incorporated into the Consortium's CICE and Icepack repositories with particular relevance to DOE, and outline expected future developments.

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