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thanks J-M! i didn't know about the sIceLoadFac parameter either, so that will be an option.</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 22, 2026 13:18<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [MITgcm-support] NLFS=4 with z coordinates.. and sea ice</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi Dan,<br>
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It should work, not used much without z*, precisely for the reason you mentioned,<br>
see also the Ocean modelling paper, doi:10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.05.005 :<br>
"Sea ice-ocean coupling using a rescaled vertical coordinate z*"<br>
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Note that you could always bring back an inconsistent "levitating" sea ice with<br>
a recently added param (in "data", first namelist): sIceLoadFac=0., <br>
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Cheers,<br>
Jean-Michel<br>
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2026 at 11:18:26AM +0000, Daniel Goldberg wrote:<br>
> Hello!<br>
> <br>
> I am curious if anyone has used nonlinear free surface (NLFS=4) with z-coordinates and with the sea ice model?<br>
> <br>
> I suspect that it will be limited by the thickness of the top cell relative to the sea ice thickness, and am prepared to deal with surf_adjustment errors if they occur.<br>
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> But aside from this, Im wondering if there are any numerics/packages that simply won't work, of if i will get a RT error simply for trying this combination of parameters?<br>
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> Thanks!<br>
> dan<br>
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