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1 cnh 1.16 \section{Sea ice model formulation}
2 heimbach 1.1 \label{sec:model}
3    
4 mlosch 1.2 %Traditionally, probably for historical reasons and the ease of
5     %treating the Coriolis term, most standard sea-ice models are
6 mlosch 1.15 %discretized on Arakawa~B grids \citep[e.g.,][]{hibler79, harder99,
7 mlosch 1.2 % kreyscher00, zhang98, hunke97}, although there are sea ice models
8 mlosch 1.15 %discretized on a C~grid \citep[e.g.,][]{ip91, tremblay97,
9 mlosch 1.5 % lemieux08}. %
10 mlosch 1.2 %\ml{[there is also MI-IM, but I only found this as a reference:
11     % \url{http://retro.met.no/english/r_and_d_activities/method/num_mod/MI-IM-Documentation.pdf}]}
12     %From the perspective of coupling a sea ice-model to a C-grid ocean
13     %model, the exchange of fluxes of heat and fresh-water pose no
14     %difficulty for a B-grid sea-ice model \citep[e.g.,][]{timmermann02a}.
15     %However, surface stress is defined at velocity points and thus needs
16     %to be interpolated between a B-grid sea-ice model and a C-grid ocean
17     %model. Smoothing implicitly associated with this interpolation may
18     %mask grid scale noise and may contribute to stabilizing the solution.
19     %On the other hand, by smoothing the stress signals are damped which
20     %could lead to reduced variability of the system. By choosing a C-grid
21     %for the sea-ice model, we circumvent this difficulty altogether and
22     %render the stress coupling as consistent as the buoyancy coupling.
23    
24     %A further advantage of the C-grid formulation is apparent in narrow
25     %straits. In the limit of only one grid cell between coasts there is no
26 jmc 1.9 %flux allowed for a B-grid (with no-slip lateral boundary conditions),
27 mlosch 1.2 %and models have used topographies with artificially widened straits to
28     %avoid this problem \citep{holloway07}. The C-grid formulation on the
29     %other hand allows a flux of sea-ice through narrow passages if
30     %free-slip along the boundaries is allowed. We demonstrate this effect
31 jmc 1.9 %in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA).
32 heimbach 1.1
33 dimitri 1.10 The MITgcm sea ice model is based on a variant of the
34 mlosch 1.2 viscous-plastic (VP) dynamic-thermodynamic sea-ice model of
35 cnh 1.16 \citet{zhang97} first introduced by \citet{hibler79, hibler80}.
36     Many aspects of the original codes have been
37     adapted
38 heimbach 1.1 \begin{itemize}
39 mlosch 1.15 \item the model has been rewritten for an Arakawa~C grid, both B- and
40 heimbach 1.1 C-grid variants are available; the C-grid code allows for no-slip
41 dimitri 1.11 and free-slip lateral boundary conditions,
42 heimbach 1.1 \item two different solution methods for solving the nonlinear
43 dimitri 1.11 momentum equations, LSOR \citep{zhang97} and EVP
44     \citep{hunke97, hunke01}, have been adopted,
45     \item ice-ocean stress can be formulated as in \citet{hibler87},
46     \item ice concentration and thickness, snow, and ice salinity or enthalpy can
47     be advected by sophisticated, conservative
48     advection schemes with flux limiters, and
49 heimbach 1.1 \item growth and melt parameterizations have been refined and extended
50     in order to allow for automatic differentiation of the code.
51     \end{itemize}
52 jmc 1.9 The sea ice model is tightly coupled to the ocean component of the
53 cnh 1.16 MITgcm \citep{marshall97:_hydros_quasi_hydros_nonhy,marshall97:_finit_volum_incom_navier_stokes}.
54 heimbach 1.1 Heat, fresh water fluxes and surface stresses are computed from the
55     atmospheric state and modified by the ice model at every time step.
56 mlosch 1.2 The remainder of this section describes the model equations and
57     details of their numerical realization. Further documentation and
58     model code can be found at \url{http://mitgcm.org}.
59    
60     \subsection{Dynamics}
61     \label{sec:dynamics}
62    
63 mlosch 1.18 \ml{[Sergey says: a kind of repetition; need to revise previous section]}
64 mlosch 1.2 Sea-ice motion is driven by ice-atmosphere, ice-ocean and internal
65     stresses. The internal stresses are evaluated following a
66     viscous-plastic (VP) constitutive law with an elliptic yield curve as
67     in \citet{hibler79}. The full momentum equations for the sea-ice model
68     and the solution by line successive over-relaxation (LSOR) are
69     described in \citet{zhang97}. Alternatively, the momentum equation
70     can be solved with an elastic-viscous-plastic (EVP) solver following
71 mlosch 1.12 \citet{hunke01}. In this technique, the evolution equations for the
72 dimitri 1.6 internal stress tensor components are solved by sub-cycling the sea ice
73     momentum solver within one ocean model time step.
74 mlosch 1.2
75     In both cases, the bulk viscosities can be bounded from above (if
76     required for numerical reasons). For stress tensor computations the
77     replacement pressure \citep{hibler95} is used so that the stress state
78 cnh 1.16 always lies within the elliptic yield curve by definition. Alternatively,
79 mlosch 1.2 in the so-called truncated ellipse method (TEM) the shear viscosity is
80     capped to suppress any tensile stress \citep{hibler97, geiger98}.
81    
82     The horizontal gradient of the ocean's surface is estimated directly
83     from ocean sea surface height and pressure loading from atmosphere,
84 dimitri 1.11 ice and snow \citep{campin08}. Ice does not float on top of the
85     ocean, instead it depresses the ocean surface according to its thickness and
86     buoyancy.
87 mlosch 1.2
88 mlosch 1.15 Lateral boundary conditions are naturally ``no-slip'' for B~grids, as
89     the tangential velocities points lie on the boundary. For C~grids, the
90 cnh 1.16 lateral boundary condition for tangential velocities
91     allow alternatively no-slip or free-slip
92 mlosch 1.2 conditions. In ocean models free-slip boundary conditions in
93     conjunction with piecewise-constant (``castellated'') coastlines have
94     been shown to reduce to no-slip boundary conditions
95 cnh 1.16 \citep{adcroft98:_slippery_coast}; for coupled ocean sea-ice models the effects of
96 mlosch 1.2 lateral boundary conditions have not yet been studied (as far as we
97     know).
98    
99     Moving sea ice exerts a surface stress on the ocean. In coupling the
100 jmc 1.9 sea-ice model to the ocean model, this stress is applied directly to
101 mlosch 1.2 the surface layer of the ocean model. An alternative ocean stress
102     formulation is given by \citet{hibler87}. Rather than applying the
103     interfacial stress directly, the stress is derived from integrating
104     over the ice thickness to the bottom of the oceanic surface layer. In
105 mlosch 1.15 the resulting equation for the combined ocean-ice momentum, the
106 mlosch 1.2 interfacial stress cancels and the total stress appears as the sum of
107 dimitri 1.6 wind stress and divergence of internal ice stresses \citep[see also
108 mlosch 1.2 Eq.\,2 of][]{hibler87}. While this formulation tightly embeds the
109 mlosch 1.15 sea ice into the surface layer of the ocean, its disadvantage is that
110 dimitri 1.11 the velocity in the surface layer of the ocean that is used to
111     advect ocean tracers is really an average over the ocean surface
112     velocity and the ice velocity, leading to an inconsistency as the ice
113 mlosch 1.2 temperature and salinity are different from the oceanic variables.
114     Both stress coupling options are available for a direct comparison of
115 mlosch 1.18 their effects on the sea-ice solution.
116 mlosch 1.2
117 dimitri 1.6 The discretization of the momentum equation is straightforward. It is
118 mlosch 1.2 similar to that of \citet{zhang98, zhang03}, but differs fundamentally
119 mlosch 1.15 in the underlying grid, namely the Arakawa~C grid. The EVP model, in
120     particular, is discretized naturally on the C~grid with the diagonal
121 mlosch 1.2 components of the stress tensor on the center points and the
122     off-diagonal term on the corner (or vorticity) points of the grid.
123     With this choice all derivatives are discretized as central
124     differences and very little averaging is involved. Apart from the
125     standard C-grid implementation, the original B-grid implementation of
126     \citet{zhang97} is also available as an option in the code.
127    
128     \subsection{Thermodynamics}
129     \label{sec:thermodynamics}
130    
131 cnh 1.16 Upward conductive heat flux
132 mlosch 1.2 is parameterized assuming a linear temperature profile and a constant
133 jmc 1.9 ice conductivity. This type of model is often referred to as a
134 cnh 1.16 ``zero-layer'' model \citet{semtner76}. The surface heat flux is computed in a similar
135 mlosch 1.2 way to that of \citet{parkinson79} and \citet{manabe79}.
136    
137     The conductive heat flux depends strongly on the ice thickness $h$.
138     However, the ice thickness in the model represents a mean over a
139     potentially very heterogeneous thickness distribution. In order to
140     parameterize a sub-grid scale distribution for heat flux computations,
141     the mean ice thickness $h$ is split into seven thickness categories
142     $H_{n}$ that are equally distributed between $2h$ and a minimum
143     imposed ice thickness of $5\text{\,cm}$ by $H_n= \frac{2n-1}{7}\,h$
144     for $n\in[1,7]$. The heat fluxes computed for each thickness category
145     is area-averaged to give the total heat flux \citep{hibler84}.
146    
147 mlosch 1.12 The atmospheric heat flux is balanced by an oceanic heat flux.
148     The oceanic flux is proportional to the difference between
149 mlosch 1.3 ocean surface temperature and the freezing point temperature of sea
150 cnh 1.16 water, which is a function of salinity.
151     This flux is not assumed to instantaneously melt
152 mlosch 1.3 or create ice, but a time scale of three days is used to relax the
153 mlosch 1.8 ocean temperature to the freezing point. While this
154 dimitri 1.11 parameterization is not new \citep[it follows the ideas of,
155 mlosch 1.3 e.g.,][]{mellor86, mcphee92, lohmann98, notz03}, it avoids a
156     discontinuity in the functional relationship between model variables,
157 dimitri 1.6 which is crucial for making the code differentiable for adjoint code
158 cnh 1.16 generation (see companion, part 2, paper).
159 dimitri 1.13 %\ml{[ONCE IT IS SUBMITTED, otherwise pers. communcations:]}\citep{fen09}
160 mlosch 1.2 The parameterization of lateral and vertical growth of sea ice follows
161     that of \citet{hibler79, hibler80}.
162    
163     On top of the ice there is a layer of snow that modifies the heat flux
164     and the albedo as in \citet{zhang98}. If enough snow accumulates so
165     that its weight submerges the ice and the snow is flooded, a simple
166 dimitri 1.11 mass conserving parameterization of snow ice formation (a flood-freeze
167 mlosch 1.2 algorithm following Archimedes' principle) turns snow into ice until
168 jmc 1.19 the ice surface is back %at $z=0$
169     to sea-level \citep{leppaeranta83}.
170 mlosch 1.2
171     The concentration $c$, effective ice thickness (ice volume per unit
172 dimitri 1.11 area, $c\cdot{h}$), effective snow thickness ($c\cdot{h}_{s}$), and effective
173     ice salinity (in g\,m$^{-2}$) are advected by ice velocities.
174 mlosch 1.2 %
175     From the various advection scheme that are available in the MITgcm
176 dimitri 1.11 \citep{mitgcm02}, we choose flux-limited schemes, i.e., multidimensional 2nd
177     and 3rd-order advection schemes with flux limiters
178     \citep{roe85, hundsdorfer94}, to preserve sharp gradients and
179 mlosch 1.2 edges that are typical of sea ice distributions and to rule out
180     unphysical over- and undershoots (negative thickness or
181 mlosch 1.18 concentration). These schemes, conserve volume and horizontal area and
182     are unconditionally stable, so that no extra diffusion is required.
183     %\ml{[Sergey says: any FV scheme will do this]}
184 mlosch 1.2
185 cnh 1.16 There is considerable doubt about the reliability of a
186 dimitri 1.11 ``zero-layer'' thermodynamic model --- \citet{semtner84} found
187 mlosch 1.2 significant errors in phase (one month lead) and amplitude
188 dimitri 1.11 ($\approx$50\%\,overestimate) in such models --- so that today many
189     sea ice models employ more complex thermodynamics. The MITgcm
190     sea ice model provides the option to use the thermodynamics model of
191     \citet{winton00}, which in turn
192     is based on the 3-layer model of \citet{semtner76} and which treats brine
193 cnh 1.16 content by means of enthalpy conservation. This scheme requires
194 jmc 1.9 additional state variables, namely the enthalpy of the two ice
195 dimitri 1.11 layers (instead of effective ice salinity), to be advected by ice velocities.
196 jmc 1.9 % \ml{[Jean-Michel, your
197     % turf: ]Care must be taken in advecting these quantities in order to
198     % ensure conservation of enthalpy. Currently this can only be
199     % accomplished with a 2nd-order advection scheme with flux limiter
200     % \citep{roe85}.}
201 dimitri 1.11 The internal sea ice temperature is inferred from ice enthalpy.
202 cnh 1.16 To avoid unphysical (negative) values for ice thickness and
203 mlosch 1.12 concentration, a positive 2nd-order advection scheme with a SuperBee
204     flux limiter \citep{roe85}
205     is used in this study to advect all sea-ice-related
206 dimitri 1.11 quantities of the \citet{winton00} thermodynamic model.
207 jmc 1.9 Because of the non-linearity of the advection scheme,
208     care must be taken in advecting these quantities: when simply using
209     ice velocity to advect enthalpy, the total energy (i.e., the volume
210     integral of enthalpy) is not conserved. Alternatively, one can advect
211     the energy content (i.e., product of ice-volume and enthalpy)
212     but then false enthalpy extrema can occur,
213     which then leads to unrealistic ice temperature.
214 mlosch 1.15 In the currently implemented solution, the sea-ice mass flux is used
215 cnh 1.17 to advect the enthalpy in order to ensure conservation of enthalpy
216 mlosch 1.15 and to prevent false enthalpy extrema.
217 heimbach 1.1
218 cnh 1.16 In \refsec{globalmodel} and \ref{sec:arcticmodel}
219     we exercise and compare several
220     of the options, which have been discussed above, intercompare
221     the impact of the different formulations (all of which are widely
222 cnh 1.17 used in sea ice modeling today) on Arctic sea ice simulation
223 mlosch 1.18 \citep{proshutinsky07:_aomip}.
224 cnh 1.16 %% Got to here..... more later
225     %% Add reference to JGR special issue here.....
226 mlosch 1.18 %\citep{prosh07:_aomipspecial}.
227    
228    
229 dimitri 1.11
230 heimbach 1.1 %%% Local Variables:
231     %%% mode: latex
232 mlosch 1.2 %%% TeX-master: "ceaice_part1"
233 heimbach 1.1 %%% End:

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