CICE6.6.2 is a minor update from CICE6.6.1 from July, 2025 and includes Icepack1.5.2.
This release is being done primarily to update the Copyright. There are also some enhancements including to the zap_small_areas in Icepack that improves the stability at the ice edge. There are also port updates for Carpenter, Gaeac5, Gaeac6, and Ursa.
Major Changes
Bug fixes
Enhancements
- #1039 Port to NOAA Ursa
- #1041 Update Carpenter port, update intel compilers, add inteloneapi, workaround debug compiler flag -fpe0 error
- #1043 Update NOAA Gaeac5 port and port to NOAA Gaeac6
- #1046 Update Icepack to #6a5c51e9e6c64 which includes improvement to zap_small_areas for vicen and vsnon. This may change answers to roundoff, but testing suggests it's relatively rare.
- #1045 Update CICE file reading to deal with possibility of NaNs on file
- #1049 Update Icepack to #f9789c2f325993c0af
Documentation