slabocean.brian

Here are the initial conditions: [png][pdf] Note that there is an Antarctic ghost because I didn't make these hemispherically symmetric. I'm hoping that the model won't mind too much.

The following plots show results from the first 5 days of an integration. History files recorded 12-hourly means, so there are 10 time slices making these plots.

First (Fig. 1) are two time series (latitude v. time) showing the sea-ice thickness and SST at an arbitrary longitude. The only thing to note is that there seem to be strong trends in the first days, as expected. The greater sea-ice growth in the southern hemisphere is due to the much colder initial conditions there. Figure:[png][eps]

The second figure shows the trends in the sea-ice thickness and the SST. This just corroborates the first figure, except it really shows that the ITCZ is experiencing a significant cooling in these first 5 days, and the whole subtropical and midlatitude SST is increasing. This makes me wonder just how long it will take to equilibrate. [png][eps]

Finally, I made a cute little animation of the SST anomalies. This shows the deviation of each point from the average value at its latitude over the first 5 days. That is, I have subtracted the zonal mean from each longitude. Hit reload to see it loop another 5 times. [gif]