[MITgcm-support] CS64 grid

[Martin Losch]

The time step should be OK for this configuration.

What about your forcing? Is it too cold? Not enough incoming radiation? What do expect when you apply your forcing?
How long do you need to integrate before this happen?

Ultrathick ice appears usually in “corners” or “embayments” that have little connection to the rest of the domain, geometrically or dynamically, so that ice get’s stuck and keeps growing. For these cases capping in a thermodynamically inconsistent way is a convenient way out (HEFF=MIN(HEFF,someMaxValue), but that’s not implementend anymore, is it?

Martin


On Feb 10, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Anthony Coletti <ajcolett at geo.umass.edu> wrote:

> Is the sea ice dynamics time step located in data file or data.seaice?
> 
> These are the time steps in data file:
> 
> deltaTmom = 1200.,
> deltaTtracer = 86400.,
> deltaTfreesurf = 86400.,
> deltaTclock = 86400.,
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> 
> Anthony
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> Anthony J. Coletti
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> On Feb 10, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Dimitris Menemenlis <dmenemenlis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Do you use 1-day time steps for sea ice dynamics?
>> With such large time steps, I am guessing that LSR
>> solver would be very inaccurate, if it works at all.
>> 
>> Dimitris Menemenlis
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>> On Feb 10, 2014, at 7:47 AM, Anthony Coletti <ajcolett at geo.umass.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Dimitris!
>>> 
>>> One other question (I also CC’d the MITgcm community).  Does anyone have any idea why I am growing +200m thick sea ice in the Arctic?  I am using pkg/seaice.  I originally thought it may have been my time step blowing up, but I lowered it from 2 days down to 1 day and I still get crazy amounts of sea ice.  This creates r*starr calculation errors.  I am running a CS32x6x32x15 grid - so it is quite coarse.
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Anthony
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