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Welcome to the Icepack wiki!

This repository contains the Icepack sea ice column physics code, which was separated from the CICE sea ice numerical model after CICE v5.1.2 was released. CICE includes Icepack as a git submodule. Icepack is also downloaded automatically when CICE is cloned. However, we recommend making changes to Icepack via a separate repository rather than using the version linked as a CICE submodule, unless changes to CICE must also be made concurrently.

LICENSE.pdf
Icepack is licensed for use through the CICE Consortium.

Releases

Icepack Release Table
Numbered Icepack releases, including documentation. Each release is available as branches in this repository or as tarballs.

Icepack Recent Changes
Information about developments on the master branch since the last numbered release.

Icepack releases are “functional releases” in the sense that the code runs, does not crash, passes various tests, and requires further work to establish its scientific validity. In general, users are not encouraged to use any of the CICE Consortium’s model configurations to obtain “scientific” results. The test configurations are useful for model development, but sea ice models must be evaluated from a physical standpoint in a coupled system because simplified configurations do not necessarily represent what is actually happening in the fully coupled system that includes interactive ocean and atmosphere components.

More information

The Community Forum is the first point of contact for the Consortium to discuss model development including bugs, diagnostics, and future directions.

See the Resource Index and pages linked at right for further information.