Articles | Volume 15, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3721-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-3721-2022
Model description paper
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10 May 2022
Model description paper |  | 10 May 2022

MPAS-Seaice (v1.0.0): sea-ice dynamics on unstructured Voronoi meshes

Adrian K. Turner, William H. Lipscomb, Elizabeth C. Hunke, Douglas W. Jacobsen​​​​​​​, Nicole Jeffery, Darren Engwirda, Todd D. Ringler, and Jonathan D. Wolfe

Data sets

MPAS-Seaice v1.0.0 data set Adrian Turner https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6230907

Version 2 forcing for Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE) NOAA https://data1.gfdl.noaa.gov/nomads/forms/core/COREv2.html

Model code and software

Energy Exascale Earth System Model v2.0 E3SM Project and DOE https://doi.org/10.11578/E3SM/dc.20210927.1

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Short summary
We present the dynamical core of the MPAS-Seaice model, which uses a mesh consisting of a Voronoi tessellation with polygonal cells. Such a mesh allows variable mesh resolution in different parts of the domain and the focusing of computational resources in regions of interest. We describe the velocity solver and tracer transport schemes used and examine errors generated by the model in both idealized and realistic test cases and examine the computational efficiency of the model.