CICE Recent Changes - CICE-Consortium/CICE GitHub Wiki

Important changes to the code on the master branch since the last numbered release

Date of last update: 25 May 2025

By: T. Craig

Last numbered release: CICE 6.6.0 (Nov 19, 2024)

Major Changes

Bug fixes

#999 Fix outgoing lw for history and coupling
#1002 Update Icepack to #43ead56380b to fix hocn and flushing velocity issue - changes answers
#1015 Update Icepack to fix surface flux arguments and BGC bug - changes answers for BGC
#1018 Remove 1:len specification in MPI boundary calls for the nvhpc compiler

Enhancements

#993 Add support for mom (supergrid) grid format
#1000 Update Perlmutter Port, update Icepack
#1001 Enable triggering restart writes at any forecast time (UFS configuration)
#1003 Update derecho gnu to add coverage capability with lcov
#1005 Add ability to write out one-time grid history file
#1006 Update rectangular (box) configurations - changes answers for some box tests
#1016 Migrate dynamics thresholds to namelist and rename
#1017 Deprecate zsalinity
#1019 Port to blueback
#1021 Update blueback for automated testing
#1023 Update initial date in nuopc/cmeps driver
#1025 Update method to check test jobs are completed for automated test reporting to make the method more robust.
#1028 Update set_version_numbers.csh to automatically update the zenodo template, .zenodo.json.
#1029 Updated the character length of stdname in the nuopc/cmeps driver
#1032 Update Icepack to #cfdf8cc9cb73d5

Documentation

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