[MITgcm-support] oceanic forcing for sea ice package

[Martin Losch]

Anurag,

the sea ice model is so tightly coupled to the ocean model that it is actually more difficult to run the model without an ocean than with an ocean underneath. Please have a look at the verification examples that use the seaice-pkg and the thsice package, e.g. global_ocean.cs32x15, offline_exf_seaice, to see how it works.

The atmospheric forcing drives ice and ocean (global_ocean.cs32x15). If you want to prescribe the ocean surface layer with constant (in time) values you need to prescribe initial conditions and turn off any dynamics (offline_exf_seaice). If you want to prescribe time varying ocean fields, you’ll probaby have to use the offline package (tutorial_offline), but I have never used that together with seaice.

Martin

> On 02 Jul 2015, at 06:27, anurag shukla <anurag2mnscoss at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  Dear All 
>                  I found in the manual that except from atmospheric forcing sea ice model also requires surface temperature from the ocean model and the top level horizontal velocity. Can any one suggest me how and where,I implement these oceanic forcing in MITgcm for sea ice package ? 
> 
> Thanks
> Anurag
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