A21. CICE Consortium
| Poster Title | CICE Consortium |
|---|---|
| First Author | |
| 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.