CICE-Consortium
Published August 29, 2025 | Version 6.6.2
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CICE-Consortium/CICE: CICE Version 6.6.2

Creators

  • 1. Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 2. Naval Research Laboratory Stennis Space Center
  • 3. National Center for Atmospheric Research
  • 4. Environment and Climate Change Canada
  • 5. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (CTR)
  • 6. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • 7. Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • 8. Intel Corporation
  • 9. Danish Meteorological Institute
  • 10. Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholz-Zentrum fur Polar- und Meersforschung
  • 11. Australian Earth-System Simulator
  • 12. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
  • 13. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Description

CICE6.6.2 is a minor update from CICE6.6.1 from July, 2025 and includes Icepack1.5.2.

This release is being done primarily to update the Copyright. There are also some enhancements including to the zap_small_areas in Icepack that improves the stability at the ice edge. There are also port updates for Carpenter, Gaeac5, Gaeac6, and Ursa.

Major Changes

Bug fixes

Enhancements

  • #1039 Port to NOAA Ursa
  • #1041 Update Carpenter port, update intel compilers, add inteloneapi, workaround debug compiler flag -fpe0 error
  • #1043 Update NOAA Gaeac5 port and port to NOAA Gaeac6
  • #1046 Update Icepack to #6a5c51e9e6c64 which includes improvement to zap_small_areas for vicen and vsnon. This may change answers to roundoff, but testing suggests it's relatively rare.
  • #1045 Update CICE file reading to deal with possibility of NaNs on file
  • #1049 Update Icepack to #f9789c2f325993c0af

Documentation

  • #1040, #1042 Update zenodo template
  • #1049 Update Copyright and version number

Files

CICE-Consortium/CICE-CICE6.6.2.zip

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Additional details

Related works

Is new version of
10.5281/zenodo.1205674 (DOI)
Is supplement to
https://github.com/CICE-Consortium/CICE/tree/CICE6.0.1 (URL)

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/CICE-Consortium/CICE