[Mitgcm-support] Re: sea-ice code

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>> This means that by the time you do the CALL SEAICE_MODEL,
>> dependening on the option, you may have read the data
>> via exf and converted them either via the exf bulk formulae or the
>> sea_ice bulk formulae (or both of open ocean/ice) into fluxes, i.e.
>> the CALL SEAICE_MODEL and CALL EXF_GETFORCING are not exclusive.
>> Is that right?

Yes.  In option 3) the sea-ice model inputs will be atmospheric state, runoff,
and open-ocean estimates of fluxes (from EXF_GETFORCING or from some other
package or combination of packages), which it would then combine with sea-ice
dynamics/thermodynamics to output final flux estimates.

D.

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