Pass seaice_melt
field through ice-ocean coupler
#145
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Presently, the MOM6 diagnostic for liquid precipitation into the ocean (
prlq
) includes both the expected contribution (IOB%lprec_top_ocn
in SIS2) and, for legacy convenience, also the net sea ice melt/formation (localnet_melt
field in SIS2). By bundling these two together, it is impossible to currently separate the surface mass fluxes from ice-ocean interactions from the hydrological cycle (without additional processing using some ice diagnostics).This PR would instead separate the two fluxes, renaming
net_melt
toIOB%seaice_melt
in SIS2 and passing this on tofluxes%seaice_melt
in MOM6 via the FMScoupler. Thefluxes%seaice_melt
field in MOM6 corresponds to CMOR diagnosticfsitherm
, which Griffies et al. (2016) identify as a level 2 priority diagnostic in the OMIP protocol for contributing to CMIP6. To my knowledge, this is the only diagnostic that is currently preventing MOM6 from being consistent with those protocols.It should be a priority to merge this PR as soon as possible so these fields are available for OM5 and ESM4.5 development (and production runs).
See companion PRs to NOAA-GFDL/SIS2#214 and NOAA-GFDL/MOM6#710