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Icepack setting for Arctic and Antarctic

Alfred

New Member
Dear developer of Icepack,

I want to inqure if there are some different setting for Arctic and Antarctic in Icepack. I run cases for both Arctic and Antarctic using the ERA5 data as the figures. In Arctic, the output shortwave show little difference with the input forcing shorwave, but in Antarctic, the output shortwave show smaller than the forcing and show a longer time polarnight when shorwave radiation is 0.
Best wishes!
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dbailey

CSEG and Liaisons
Staff member
In Icepack, you are setting the latitude and longitude of the forcing. What do you mean when you are using ERA5 forcing? Do you extract point values for each hemisphere? The initialization is slightly different depending on the hemispheres, but all of the namelist parameters should be the same.
 

Alfred

New Member
In Icepack, you are setting the latitude and longitude of the forcing. What do you mean when you are using ERA5 forcing? Do you extract point values for each hemisphere? The initialization is slightly different depending on the hemispheres, but all of the namelist parameters should be the same.
Yes, I extract the point values for both Arctic and Antarctia to test. Could you tell me where I can set the latitude and longitude of the forcing, I don't find the latitude and longitude in the namelist of ice_in.

Best regards,

Alfred
 

dbailey

CSEG and Liaisons
Staff member
The latitude and longitude of the points in icepack are hard coded in icedrv_init.F90.

TLAT(:) = p5*pi ! pi/2, North pole
TLON(:) = c0

do i = 2, nx
TLAT(i) = TLAT(i-1) - p5*pi/180._dbl_kind ! half-deg increments
enddo

I believe the lat/lon of the forcing is just implied by the data you are reading in.
 

Alfred

New Member
The latitude and longitude of the points in icepack are hard coded in icedrv_init.F90.

TLAT(:) = p5*pi ! pi/2, North pole
TLON(:) = c0

do i = 2, nx
TLAT(i) = TLAT(i-1) - p5*pi/180._dbl_kind ! half-deg increments
enddo

I believe the lat/lon of the forcing is just implied by the data you are reading in.
Hi, I have another question. I run the Icepack with forcing data and compare the output with the input forcing, such as the down shortwave radiation, the out and in result show the same. But I chose the dEdd sheme. The result show that the shortwave radiation parameterization scheme do not work. I don not find where so set to open the use of parameterization scheme。
 
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