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UKESM1 / GLINT / JULES / Atmosphere model interface #9

Open ggslc opened 11 months ago

ggslc commented 11 months ago

BISICLES interacts with two components of the UKESM1 models.

  1. Atmosphere / Land surface: supplies surface elevation s(x,y), receives surface mass balance a(x,y,z=s) and heat flux or temperature.
  2. Ocean: supplies ice shelf draft d(x,y), receives melt rates m(x,y,z=d)

At the moment, 1 requires BISICLES wrapped into a program called Unicicles, which lives in a separate svn repo and includes a legacy version of the Glimmer-CISM fortran ice sheet model. Legacy glimmer-CISM does not compile under recent gfortran. It was always difficult to set up the entire stack. We use only a small part (GLINT) in practice. We might replace this with new code and remove the need for unicicles.

ggslc commented 11 months ago

UKESM2 (longer time scale)