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Ocean-ice exchange

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ocean-ice heat exchg

ocean-ice FW exchg

ocean-ice momentum exchg

AWI

 

 

 

 DRAKKAR

 linear in ocean T - freezing T

 salt rejection, freshwater flux, ice at 6 ppt

 quadratic, Cd=5.5e-3

GSFC

 Boundary layer model (Mellor and Kantha, JGR 1989)

 Same

 same

ICMMG

same as LANL

same as LANL

same as LANL

LANL

*

virtual salt flux, ice at 4 ppt

quadratic, Cd=5.5e-3

LU

linear in ocean T - freezing T

virtual salt flux, ice at 4 ppt

quadratic, Cd=5.5e-3

NERSC

linear in To and Tf (Maykut and McPhee, 1995)

virtual salt flux, ice at 6ppt

quadratic, Cd=5.5e-3

NPS

 

 

quadratic, Cd=5.5e-3

NYU

 

 

 

POL

linear in To and Tf (McPhee, 1992)

explicit freshwater and salt

quadratic, Cd=5.5e-3

FEMAO

 linear in To and Tf (McPhee, 1992)

 explicit freshwater and salt, ice at 4 ppt

quadratic, Cd=5.5e-3


+ Gravity wave drag

INMOM

 Ebert & Curry, 1993

 

quadratic, Cd=5.5e-3

RCO

bulk (Omstedt & Wettlaufer, 1992)

salt rejection, freshwater flux, ice at 4 ppt

quadratic, Cd=3.5e-3

UCL

linear in ocean T - freezing T

salt rejection, freshwater flux

quadratic, Cd=5.5e-3

UW

 

 

 

DAL

 

 

 

FSU

 

 

 

GFDL

 

 

 

IARC-A

reset SST to freezing T

salt rejection, freshwater flux

quadratic, Cd=5.e-3

IARC-B

reset SST to freezing T

salt rejection, freshwater flux

quadratic, Cd=5.e-3

ECCO2

relax SST to freezing T

explicit salt exchange (Nguyen et al, 2009)

quadratic, Cd=5.56e-3

MIT

 

 

 

NCAR

 

 

 

NPI

 

 

 

UMASD

 

 

 

NOCS/ORCA25

Turbulent mixing (McPhee, 1992)+lead model

freshwater and salt

quadratic, Cd=5.0e-3

MCGU

 

 

 

LOCEAN

linear in ocean T - freezing T

salt rejection

Hibler and Bryan, 1987

IOS

linear in ocean T - freezing T

virtual salt flux, ice at 4 ppt

quadratic, Cd=5.5e-3

* LANL: heat, salt: ice formation in ocean (frazil) maintains temperature at or above salinity-dependent freezing temperature, up to maximum = linear in ocean T - freezing T, coef 0.575