Animated E3SM V1 High Resolution Mertz Polynya Sea Ice Thickness and Concentration with mid-20th Century Atmospheric Constituents

This animated GIF file visualizes daily grid-cell mean sea ice thickness and concentration for the Mertz Glacier Polynya region of the East Antarctic coast from version 1 of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) using 25km Atmosphere/Land and 8-16km Sea Ice-Ocean resolutions as described in the manuscript "The DOE E3SM coupled model version 1: Description 1 and results at high resolution". River routing is resolved at 0.125˚.  This fully coupled simulation was spun-up for 6 years, and then proceeded for 50 subsequent years using HighResMIP protocols for continuuous 1950s atmospheric constituents.   This animation shows sea thickness evolution in each frame for ten model years 46 to 55, inclusive, with shading transparency determined by sea ice concentration, and grid cell outlines dissappearing where there is less than 0.1% sea ice concentration.  The coastline is the true model boundary. This animation is best viewed using a web browser.