1. POPCICE - numerical experiments.
Robert Osinski
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey

2. Coupled sea-ice ocean model
Parallel Ocean Program (POP) ver. 2.01
CICE ver 3.14 beta
Coupler

3. Control run (dyn5) Forcing data: 1979-1981 ECMWF ERA15 9-years run
Ice thickness
Ice extent

4. Dyn5 experiment results
1983 year means 1980 year atmospheric data
Distribution of ice thickness is not correct
Thin ice in the Central Arctic during summer period

5. S1 numerical experiment
Start at march 1979
9 month January atmospheric forcing
1980 year results

6. Ice thickness at the selected section crossing the North Pole.
01st of August 1980
10th of August 1980
20th of August 1980
30th of August 1980

7. Bottom and top ice melt. S1 experiment

8. Ice-ocean heat flux. S1 experiment

9. Divergence of ice velocity

10. Wind field and ice thickness distribution. Dyn5 experiment.
Cyclonic wind circulation

11. Wind divergence.

12. Plan for the next few months
Test again the POPCICE
Smoothing or filtering the wind fields
Run with ERA40 data
Some new numerical experiments
Thank you!