[MITgcm-support] Sea ice

[Dimitris Menemenlis]

> Furthermore, I am interested in a dynamical and thermodynamical sea-ice model,
> with multiple layers in the ice.

Peter Jan, to add to Patrick's and Martin's replies, pkg/seaice does have some 
rudimentary "multiple layer" capability.  That is, open ocean, multi-category 
ice, and snow.  It is turned on with "#define SEAICE_MULTICATEGORY" in 
SEAICE_OPTIONS.h

> C--   By default, the sea-ice package uses 2-category thermodynamics.
> C     When this flag is set, an 8-category calculation of ice
> C     thermodynamics is carried out in groatb.F
> C     Note the pickup_seaice.* generated by this option differ
> C     from those generated with the default 2-category model.
> C     Therefore it is not possible to switch between the two
> C     in the middle of an integration.
> #undef SEAICE_MULTICATEGORY