Effects of using the BBM rheology in the neXtSIM-F forecast platform
- 1Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
- 2Centre Nacional de la Recherche Scientifique - Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
The neXtSIM-F forecast platform entered into service as part of CMEMS (as product ARCTIC_ANALYSISFORECAST_PHY_ICE_002_011) in July 2020, using the neXtSIM sea ice model . It is a stand-alone sea ice model, forced with atmospheric fields from ECMWF and with ocean fields from TOPAZ4. At that time (July 2021) the model was using the Maxwell Elasto Brittle (MEB) sea ice rheology in its dynamical core. In December 2020, the forecast was upgraded to use the Brittle Bingham Maxwell (BBM) rheology, result in significant improvements to the physical results and in numerical performance and stability. We will present results obtained using this new rheology.
How to cite: Williams, T., Korosov, A., Rampal, P., Einar, O., and Bertino, L.: Effects of using the BBM rheology in the neXtSIM-F forecast platform, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-2099, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2099, 2021.