The first steps towards a viable sea ice model is to implement a slab (ie zero-dimensional or zero heat capacity) "slab" model for sea ice growth and melting. A SlabSeaIceModel has no internal heat transport, but still retains the complication of computing the surface temperature and the rates of melting and freezing at the top and bottom.
This issue should be marked completed when we can run column simulations with SlabSeaIceModel using realistic boundary conditions. We'll tackle a snow model later.
The first steps towards a viable sea ice model is to implement a slab (ie zero-dimensional or zero heat capacity) "slab" model for sea ice growth and melting. A
SlabSeaIceModelhas no internal heat transport, but still retains the complication of computing the surface temperature and the rates of melting and freezing at the top and bottom.This issue should be marked completed when we can run column simulations with
SlabSeaIceModelusing realistic boundary conditions. We'll tackle a snow model later.