[MITgcm-support] Remove Conductive Heat Flux in Shelfice package

[Patmore, Ryan D.]

Hi MITgcm people,

I want to remove the conductive heat flux from the equations in the shelfice package. As far as I am aware the only built in way of adjusting this term is via SHELFICEadvDiffHeatFlux. Setting this flag to true parameterises the heat flux though an advection-diffusion equation and setting it to false gives a diffusion only set-up. What I want is to neglect this effect entirely and remove the conduction of heat through the ice. There is no flag for this and the code in shelfice_thermodynamics.F is quite abstract so I am not really sure if there is an easy route. An initial approach could be to set thetaFreeze = SHELFICEthetaSurface (or equivalently T_I = T_b) but whether this would work or not I don't know. Does anyone have a simple approach for this?

Cheers,
Ryan


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