[MITgcm-support] Ice thickness category diagnostics

[David Huard]

Do you mean that when the model creates new ice, it creates a fixed
fraction of ice in each category ? 15 % of thin ice, 15% of thick ice, etc ?

David


On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Martin Losch <Martin.Losch at awi.de> wrote:

> On Feb 8, 2013, at 3:22 PM, David Huard <david.huard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What about the ice thickness categories ? Is there a way to get those
> fields individually rather than as a bulk concentration ?
>
> Are you talking about the "SEAICE_MULTICATEGORY"-code? This code only
> assumes a fixed distribution (in fact, it is homogeneous) of "actual" ice
> thicknesses h (as opposed to HEFF = h*AREA), so there is no reason to save
> the extra fields.
> siTICES gives the surface temperatures for each category, if that is of
> any help.
>
> Martin
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