CICE6.3.0
CICE6.3.0 is a major update of CICE6.2.0 from April, 2021. This update includes a significant upgrade to the snow physics in CICE and Icepack. In addition, the 1D evp solver is now fully validated, several fixes have been made to the history files, the ice/ocean drag can be computed from the under-ice roughness, and staggered atmospheric levels are supported in coupling. By default, the new snow physics is turned off, so the default results are similar to CICE6.2.0.
Major Changes
Bug fixes
- fix single/double precision history issues in netcdf and pio2 #628
- history time axis, time_beg and time_end values #624
- error in QC runs related to cycling forcing data and consistency with leap years #624
- 1x1 and 2x2 blocksize error #618
- history and restart frequency #610
- array bounds and decomposition errors #602
Enhancements
- optionally compute dragio using under-ice roughness length #612
- support for staggered atmospheric levels #603
- extend averaging for histfreq='1' and begin to decouple histfreq='1', histfreq_n=1, and hist_avg #624
- update Icepack #621, #629
- add iceruf to namelist #600
- update drivers #593 #598 #605 #607 #611
- improve unit testing #606, #610, #617
- improve code coverage testing scripts #604
- update testing scripts #610
- improve debugging capabilities #602
- update HYCOM forcing for new calendar #597
- update calendar features, deprecate restart namelist #610
- update gx1prod and add gx1prod15 production setups #629
- machine ports #596, #617, #620
Documentation