Using Icepack to reproduce Ice Mass Balance buoy observations in landfast ice – data and codes

Code and data to reproduce the results presented in Plante et al. (2023). The Icepack v1.1.0 code used to run the simulations is available on github, branch Plante.et.al.2023, at :  https://github.com/mathieuslplante/Icepack.git

This repository contains:

• Data from the 2 SIMBA buoys deployed in 2017 in the landfast ice close to Nain, Labrador,
• Data from the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) weather station at Nain airport,
• Diagnostic files from 31 Icepack v.1.1.0 simulations to reproduce the SIMBA observations,
• Python codes used to reproduce the figures and analysis included in Plante et al. (2023),
• Namelists.ini files for each dataset and simulation, used in the analysis scripts below.

The python scripts include the following:

• SAMSIMBdata.py : Python package to read and process the SIMBA data,
• Icepackdata.py : Python package to read and process the Icepack diagnostics,
• EC_WStation_data.py : Python package to read and process ECCC weather station data,
• SfcRetrieval.py : Surface retrieval algorithm described in Plante et al., (2023),
• Visualization.py : Python package with code to reproduce all figures from Plante at al., (2023),
• Plante.et.al.2023_Data-analysis.py : Running this script will produce all figures and analysis from Plante et al., (2023).

Reference:

Plante, M., Lemieux, J.-F., Tremblay, L. B., Tivy, A., Angnatok, J., Roy, F., Smith, G., Dupont, F. and Turner, A. K. : Using Icepack to reproduce Ice Mass Balance buoy observations in landfast ice: improvements from the mushy layer thermodynamics