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Title: CICE Consortium Progress Report, June 2018 - December 2019

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1581266· OSTI ID:1581266

The CICE Consortium accomplished a number of major upgrades to our sea ice model code, scripts and testing infrastructure, while strengthening our visibility in the international modeling community. We released CICE versions 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2 and 6.1.0, all of which include updated releases of Icepack. Major new capabilities include a floe size distribution, new coupling infrastructure, improvements to all of CICE’s dynamics options, a new atmospheric data set for historical simulations, overhauled documentation, and more robust and flexible scripts for running and testing the code. Several key testing processes were automated this year. In addition, the team is actively engaged in planning our first user workshop and tutorial in February 2020. In addition to overseeing modifications to the Consortium’s resources and code releases, management tasks included meeting with and updating the Consortium’s Sponsors group in October 2018, prioritizing tasks by mapping them onto potential release targets, and rescuing early CICE releases (version 1 through 3.14) from a disappearing LANL archive.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Contributing Organization:
CICE Consortium
DOE Contract Number:
89233218CNA000001
OSTI ID:
1581266
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-19-32661
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English