News and Highlights
There was a Workshop and Tutorial in Santa Fe, NM from May 21 to 23, 2024. The agenda and talks can be viewed here, CICE Users Workshop and Tutorial 2024
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
the CICE Consortium earned a spot in R&D World’s top 100 R&D innovation awards for 2021. In addition, the Consortium also won the Gold Medal for Corporate Social Responsibility. Notably, this award was not just for the CICE sea ice code, but for the Consortium as an organization that fosters collaboration to enhance our software and modeling capabilities.
Further information and a complete list of winners
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Check out our video!
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Consortium members published an invited, peer-reviewed journal paper in collaboration with colleagues from many modeling centers around the world, entitled
Should Sea-Ice Modeling Tools Designed for Climate Research Be Used for Short-Term Forecasting?
A brief overview of the same topic appears in the news magazine for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, SIAM News.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Narrated slides outlining the Consortium's efforts and successes for FY20, as well as upcoming plans.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Update A one-day user's workshop and 2-day tutorial was held at NCAR's Mesa Lab in Boulder, Colorado. Workshop presentations and tutorial materials have been posted on the event website.
A one-page summary of the event is available at the link above or in the Consortium reports.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program included a short article about the CICE Consortium in its annual report, Our Changing Planet: The U.S. Global Change Research Program for Fiscal Years 2018-2019. Read the online highlight.
Updated code releases can be found at the CICE Release Table and Icepack Release Table, or through our Zenodo community.
CICE version 6.0.0 is publicly released along with Icepack version 1.1.0. Icepack contains the column physics within CICE, first released as an independent software package in February 2018. This CICE release also includes many other improvements since version 5.1.2, most notably a new landfast-ice parameterization with tensile strength, and full vertical biogeochemistry with shortwave feedback on sea ice physics. We have also implemented a number of infrastructure improvements for running and testing the model.
Press coverage: phys.org and Santa Fe New Mexican and AGU The Field.
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The Consortium will host a town hall Friday December 14, 2018 at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington, DC. The Consortium aims to accelerate sea ice model development by providing a pathway and support for community contributions to its sea ice model codes. At this town hall we will discuss recent Consortium activities, provide brief updates on exciting new sea ice code developments, and invite the community to participate in this model development. More info ...
Icepack, a new modular software package, represents critical sea ice processes including thermodynamics, ridging, biogeochemistry, and associated area and thickness changes. The software can be ported easily to a wide variety of models for sea ice prediction and earth system simulation. More info ...
In 2016, the international CICE Consortium was founded to promote further scientific research and development (R&D) of sea ice modeling, and to accelerate the transfer of these innovations to operational arenas. More info ...
Dr. Elizabeth Hunke, the Consortium lead, discusses challenges of modeling sea ice evolution over different time scales from weeks to years to millenia. More info ...
We have publicly released Icepack v1.0, the CICE Consortium’s new sea ice column physics code. It includes all physical parameterizations from the CICE sea ice model that are limited to single grid-cell columns or Lagrangian elements, independent of the grid and other sea ice model infrastructure. Many aspects of the physics and biogeochemistry that were previously embedded in CICE version 5 now reside within Icepack, and new features have also been added. In addition to the column physics modules from CICE, this software package includes a stand-alone driver and automated testing using a comprehensive test suite. More info ...