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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 mlosch 1.22 adapted; these are the most important ones:
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 mlosch 1.22 C-grid variants are available; the finite-volume C-grid code allows
41     for no-slip 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 1.22 %\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 mlosch 1.22 described in \citet{zhang97}. %Alternatively, the momentum equation
70     % can be solved with an elastic-viscous-plastic (EVP) solver following
71     % \citet{hunke01}. In this technique, the evolution equations for the
72     % internal stress tensor components are solved by sub-cycling the sea ice
73     % momentum solver within one ocean model time step.
74     Alternatively, the elastic-viscous-plastic (EVP) technique following
75     \citet{hunke01} relaxed the ice state towards the VP rheology by
76     sub-cycling the evolution equations for the internal stress tensor
77     components and the sea ice momentum solver within one ocean model time
78     step.
79 mlosch 1.2
80     In both cases, the bulk viscosities can be bounded from above (if
81     required for numerical reasons). For stress tensor computations the
82     replacement pressure \citep{hibler95} is used so that the stress state
83 mlosch 1.22 always lies within the elliptic yield curve by definition.
84     %Alternatively, in the so-called truncated ellipse method (TEM) the
85     %shear viscosity is capped to suppress any tensile stress
86     %\citep{hibler97, geiger98}.
87     In an alternative to the elliptic yield curve, the so-called truncated
88     ellipse method (TEM), the shear viscosity is capped to suppress any
89     tensile stress \citep{hibler97, geiger98}.
90 mlosch 1.2
91     The horizontal gradient of the ocean's surface is estimated directly
92     from ocean sea surface height and pressure loading from atmosphere,
93 dimitri 1.11 ice and snow \citep{campin08}. Ice does not float on top of the
94     ocean, instead it depresses the ocean surface according to its thickness and
95     buoyancy.
96 mlosch 1.2
97 mlosch 1.15 Lateral boundary conditions are naturally ``no-slip'' for B~grids, as
98     the tangential velocities points lie on the boundary. For C~grids, the
99 cnh 1.16 lateral boundary condition for tangential velocities
100     allow alternatively no-slip or free-slip
101 mlosch 1.2 conditions. In ocean models free-slip boundary conditions in
102     conjunction with piecewise-constant (``castellated'') coastlines have
103     been shown to reduce to no-slip boundary conditions
104 cnh 1.16 \citep{adcroft98:_slippery_coast}; for coupled ocean sea-ice models the effects of
105 mlosch 1.2 lateral boundary conditions have not yet been studied (as far as we
106     know).
107    
108     Moving sea ice exerts a surface stress on the ocean. In coupling the
109 jmc 1.9 sea-ice model to the ocean model, this stress is applied directly to
110 mlosch 1.2 the surface layer of the ocean model. An alternative ocean stress
111     formulation is given by \citet{hibler87}. Rather than applying the
112     interfacial stress directly, the stress is derived from integrating
113     over the ice thickness to the bottom of the oceanic surface layer. In
114 mlosch 1.15 the resulting equation for the combined ocean-ice momentum, the
115 mlosch 1.2 interfacial stress cancels and the total stress appears as the sum of
116 dimitri 1.6 wind stress and divergence of internal ice stresses \citep[see also
117 mlosch 1.2 Eq.\,2 of][]{hibler87}. While this formulation tightly embeds the
118 mlosch 1.15 sea ice into the surface layer of the ocean, its disadvantage is that
119 dimitri 1.11 the velocity in the surface layer of the ocean that is used to
120 mlosch 1.22 advect ocean tracers is an average over the ocean surface
121 dimitri 1.11 velocity and the ice velocity, leading to an inconsistency as the ice
122 mlosch 1.2 temperature and salinity are different from the oceanic variables.
123     Both stress coupling options are available for a direct comparison of
124 mlosch 1.18 their effects on the sea-ice solution.
125 mlosch 1.2
126 mlosch 1.21 The finite-volume discretization of the momentum equation on the
127     Arakawa C~grid is straightforward. The stress tensor divergence, in
128 mlosch 1.15 particular, is discretized naturally on the C~grid with the diagonal
129 mlosch 1.2 components of the stress tensor on the center points and the
130     off-diagonal term on the corner (or vorticity) points of the grid.
131     With this choice all derivatives are discretized as central
132 mlosch 1.21 differences and very little averaging is involved, see
133     \refapp{discretization} for details. Apart from the standard C-grid
134     implementation, the original B-grid implementation of \citet{zhang97}
135     is also available as an option in the code.
136 mlosch 1.2
137     \subsection{Thermodynamics}
138     \label{sec:thermodynamics}
139    
140 cnh 1.16 Upward conductive heat flux
141 mlosch 1.2 is parameterized assuming a linear temperature profile and a constant
142 jmc 1.9 ice conductivity. This type of model is often referred to as a
143 mlosch 1.22 ``zero-layer'' model \citep{semtner76}. The surface heat flux is
144     computed in a similar
145 mlosch 1.2 way to that of \citet{parkinson79} and \citet{manabe79}.
146    
147     The conductive heat flux depends strongly on the ice thickness $h$.
148     However, the ice thickness in the model represents a mean over a
149     potentially very heterogeneous thickness distribution. In order to
150     parameterize a sub-grid scale distribution for heat flux computations,
151     the mean ice thickness $h$ is split into seven thickness categories
152     $H_{n}$ that are equally distributed between $2h$ and a minimum
153     imposed ice thickness of $5\text{\,cm}$ by $H_n= \frac{2n-1}{7}\,h$
154     for $n\in[1,7]$. The heat fluxes computed for each thickness category
155     is area-averaged to give the total heat flux \citep{hibler84}.
156    
157 mlosch 1.12 The atmospheric heat flux is balanced by an oceanic heat flux.
158     The oceanic flux is proportional to the difference between
159 mlosch 1.3 ocean surface temperature and the freezing point temperature of sea
160 cnh 1.16 water, which is a function of salinity.
161     This flux is not assumed to instantaneously melt
162 mlosch 1.3 or create ice, but a time scale of three days is used to relax the
163 mlosch 1.8 ocean temperature to the freezing point. While this
164 dimitri 1.11 parameterization is not new \citep[it follows the ideas of,
165 mlosch 1.3 e.g.,][]{mellor86, mcphee92, lohmann98, notz03}, it avoids a
166     discontinuity in the functional relationship between model variables,
167 dimitri 1.6 which is crucial for making the code differentiable for adjoint code
168 cnh 1.16 generation (see companion, part 2, paper).
169 dimitri 1.13 %\ml{[ONCE IT IS SUBMITTED, otherwise pers. communcations:]}\citep{fen09}
170 mlosch 1.2 The parameterization of lateral and vertical growth of sea ice follows
171     that of \citet{hibler79, hibler80}.
172    
173     On top of the ice there is a layer of snow that modifies the heat flux
174     and the albedo as in \citet{zhang98}. If enough snow accumulates so
175     that its weight submerges the ice and the snow is flooded, a simple
176 dimitri 1.11 mass conserving parameterization of snow ice formation (a flood-freeze
177 mlosch 1.2 algorithm following Archimedes' principle) turns snow into ice until
178 jmc 1.19 the ice surface is back %at $z=0$
179 mlosch 1.20 at sea-level \citep{leppaeranta83}.
180 mlosch 1.2
181     The concentration $c$, effective ice thickness (ice volume per unit
182 dimitri 1.11 area, $c\cdot{h}$), effective snow thickness ($c\cdot{h}_{s}$), and effective
183     ice salinity (in g\,m$^{-2}$) are advected by ice velocities.
184 mlosch 1.2 %
185     From the various advection scheme that are available in the MITgcm
186 dimitri 1.11 \citep{mitgcm02}, we choose flux-limited schemes, i.e., multidimensional 2nd
187     and 3rd-order advection schemes with flux limiters
188     \citep{roe85, hundsdorfer94}, to preserve sharp gradients and
189 mlosch 1.2 edges that are typical of sea ice distributions and to rule out
190     unphysical over- and undershoots (negative thickness or
191 mlosch 1.18 concentration). These schemes, conserve volume and horizontal area and
192     are unconditionally stable, so that no extra diffusion is required.
193     %\ml{[Sergey says: any FV scheme will do this]}
194 mlosch 1.2
195 cnh 1.16 There is considerable doubt about the reliability of a
196 dimitri 1.11 ``zero-layer'' thermodynamic model --- \citet{semtner84} found
197 mlosch 1.2 significant errors in phase (one month lead) and amplitude
198 dimitri 1.11 ($\approx$50\%\,overestimate) in such models --- so that today many
199     sea ice models employ more complex thermodynamics. The MITgcm
200     sea ice model provides the option to use the thermodynamics model of
201     \citet{winton00}, which in turn
202     is based on the 3-layer model of \citet{semtner76} and which treats brine
203 cnh 1.16 content by means of enthalpy conservation. This scheme requires
204 jmc 1.9 additional state variables, namely the enthalpy of the two ice
205 dimitri 1.11 layers (instead of effective ice salinity), to be advected by ice velocities.
206 jmc 1.9 % \ml{[Jean-Michel, your
207     % turf: ]Care must be taken in advecting these quantities in order to
208     % ensure conservation of enthalpy. Currently this can only be
209     % accomplished with a 2nd-order advection scheme with flux limiter
210     % \citep{roe85}.}
211 dimitri 1.11 The internal sea ice temperature is inferred from ice enthalpy.
212 cnh 1.16 To avoid unphysical (negative) values for ice thickness and
213 mlosch 1.12 concentration, a positive 2nd-order advection scheme with a SuperBee
214     flux limiter \citep{roe85}
215     is used in this study to advect all sea-ice-related
216 dimitri 1.11 quantities of the \citet{winton00} thermodynamic model.
217 jmc 1.9 Because of the non-linearity of the advection scheme,
218     care must be taken in advecting these quantities: when simply using
219     ice velocity to advect enthalpy, the total energy (i.e., the volume
220     integral of enthalpy) is not conserved. Alternatively, one can advect
221     the energy content (i.e., product of ice-volume and enthalpy)
222     but then false enthalpy extrema can occur,
223     which then leads to unrealistic ice temperature.
224 mlosch 1.15 In the currently implemented solution, the sea-ice mass flux is used
225 cnh 1.17 to advect the enthalpy in order to ensure conservation of enthalpy
226 mlosch 1.15 and to prevent false enthalpy extrema.
227 heimbach 1.1
228 cnh 1.16 In \refsec{globalmodel} and \ref{sec:arcticmodel}
229     we exercise and compare several
230 mlosch 1.22 of the options, which have been discussed above; we intercompare
231 cnh 1.16 the impact of the different formulations (all of which are widely
232 cnh 1.17 used in sea ice modeling today) on Arctic sea ice simulation
233 mlosch 1.18 \citep{proshutinsky07:_aomip}.
234 cnh 1.16 %% Got to here..... more later
235     %% Add reference to JGR special issue here.....
236 mlosch 1.18 %\citep{prosh07:_aomipspecial}.
237    
238    
239 dimitri 1.11
240 heimbach 1.1 %%% Local Variables:
241     %%% mode: latex
242 mlosch 1.2 %%% TeX-master: "ceaice_part1"
243 heimbach 1.1 %%% End:

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