Icepack Recent Changes

Important changes to the code on the master branch since the last numbered release

Date of last update: 7 Sept 2023

By: T. Craig

Last numbered release: Icepack v1.3.3 (Dec 9, 2022)

Major Changes

Bug fixes

Correct thin ice/snow treatment of enthalpy and other tracers. #454. This changes answers in CICE (QC passes) but not Icepack
Fix ice area inconsistency under convergence in single column mode #433. This changes answers in standalone Icepack but not in CICE.
Fix bug in snow sublimation in icepack_therm_vertical #428. Fix bug in smicen and smliqn calculation in thermo_vertical #449. This changes answers for snwgrain configurations.
Update the FSD lateral heat flux computation and fix bug in the welding scheme. #424 #435 This changes answers for FSD configurations.
Fix bug in history file output related to FSD. #421. This does not change model results.
Fix bug in start time for netCDF history output #426. This does not change model results.
Update hsn_new(1) computation in snow_redist. This does not change model results.

Enhancements

Update snow physics logic control #449
Refactor implementation of optional arguments for isotopes, snwgrain, therm1 and therm2 as well as some optional outputs in Icepack public interfaces #423, #429. Update FSD arguments, convert them to optional #440. Clean up optional argument attributes and update optional argument documentation #443.
Add icepack_chkoptargflag function #423, #434
Add support for netCDF restart files, update history and restart format control #427
Deprecate zsalinity #448
Remove ridging iteration log output #445, #446
Check allocation of snow aging tables better #428
Clean up some intent statements, clean up public interface declarations #429
Shift a few left-over print statements to use the icepack warning infrastructure #424
Add support for netCDF with conda_linux #425
Update icepack_write_parameters and add call in Icepack #436
Update ports to Onyx, Derecho, Cheyenne, Chicoma #442, #449, #456