In December of Year 46 of a CESM 1.2.2 slab ocean run with horizontal fluxes set to zero: (1850_CAM5_CLM45_CICE_DOCN%SOM_RTM_SGLC_SWAV), I get CLM crashing because of issues with snow balance. In particular, I get this in the CESM log: WARNING: snow balance error nstep = 804117 indexc= 5230 ltype: 6 errh2osno= 0.213626229745594 clm model is stopping - error is greater than .10 nstep = 804117 indexc= 5230 errh2osno= 0.213626229745594 ltype: 6 ctype(indexc): 65 snl: -1 h2osno: 1.34031126790802 h2osno_old: 1.39951518049922 snow_sources: 1.884662632477202E-008 snow_sinks: 1.515911479245435E-004 qflx_prec_grnd: 3.392392738458963E-005 qflx_sub_snow: 2.217117946664299E-002 qflx_evap_grnd: 3.706665705194147E-002 qflx_top_soil: 0.000000000000000E+000 qflx_dew_snow: 0.000000000000000E+000 qflx_dew_grnd: 0.000000000000000E+000 qflx_snwcp_ice: 0.213626229745594 qflx_snwcp_liq: 0.000000000000000E+000 qflx_sl_top_soil: 0.000000000000000E+000 clm model is stopping Does anyone know the significance of "snow capping"? And why there would be sudden dump of ice in a single timestep? Nicholas Heavens Research Assistant Professor of Planetary ScienceHampton University