Ocean Modeling Discussion

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Thanks both. The biggest difficulty I find with CICE (technically speaking) is that it seems not simple to have open boundary conditions with some lateral boundary forcing of ice conditions.

I'm developing a regional ocean-ice model for a subarctic fjord on the Labrador coast (Hamilton Inlet). I'm interested in getting the seasonal and interannual circulation in the fjord-system as well as the ice conditions - most notably how the circulation/atmospheric conditions affect areas of thick...