Dear all,
I am currently conducting sensitivity experiments on sea ice and sea surface temperature (SST) using F2000climo. My approach involves modifying the file specified by SSTICE_DATA_FILENAME to adjust the sea ice and SST. From my understanding, the model reads this file continuously during the backward integration to apply the sea ice and SST forcing.
However, upon inspecting the *cice.r files during the simulation, I notice that some parameters, such as sice and qice, are changing. Despite using the same SSTICE_DATA_FILENAME file across different cases, I observe differences in the cice.r files for the same month. This contradicts my expectation that, since the sea ice forcing should be the same, the restart files (specifically cice.r) should be identical.
Could you please clarify if modifying the SSTICE_DATA_FILENAME to specify the sea ice forcing is a reasonable approach? And does the sea ice model perform its own calculations and updates, even though I initially thought it would not?
Thank you for your insights!
I am currently conducting sensitivity experiments on sea ice and sea surface temperature (SST) using F2000climo. My approach involves modifying the file specified by SSTICE_DATA_FILENAME to adjust the sea ice and SST. From my understanding, the model reads this file continuously during the backward integration to apply the sea ice and SST forcing.
However, upon inspecting the *cice.r files during the simulation, I notice that some parameters, such as sice and qice, are changing. Despite using the same SSTICE_DATA_FILENAME file across different cases, I observe differences in the cice.r files for the same month. This contradicts my expectation that, since the sea ice forcing should be the same, the restart files (specifically cice.r) should be identical.
Could you please clarify if modifying the SSTICE_DATA_FILENAME to specify the sea ice forcing is a reasonable approach? And does the sea ice model perform its own calculations and updates, even though I initially thought it would not?
Thank you for your insights!
