[MITgcm-support] forcing the model with offline sea-ice

[Martin Losch]

Hi Arash,

I don’t think that there’s such a flag. But you can probably implement somethink like that yourself:
in pkg/exf (which you need for pkg/seaice anyway), read the sea ice concentration in the same way as atemp  and copy this value onto AREA in seaice_model before seaice_growth is called. You will still have some advection and modification in seaice_growh, but that will be overwritten by your data at each time step.

Martin

> On 30 Aug 2016, at 23:33, Arash Bigdeli <arash_bigdeli at my.uri.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear MITgcm developers
> 
> I am trying to capture mixed layer depth (MLD) changes in time scale of a month in arctic using the regional model, I was wondering if it is possible to feed the sea-ice concentration (from satellite ) to the model and let the model develop the ocean beneath the sea-ice. Essentially using the heat source/sink and  brine rejection/fresh water from the input sea ice time history to calculate the MLD. 
> In short, is there a flag in seaice_options.h for keeping all the features of SI package but instead of SI fraction being an output, feeding it as an input to the model. 
> 
> Best
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