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Adds new ocean to ice coupling fields for frazil ice formation #460

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Allows for the ocean model to compute the accumulated frazil mass, salt mass, and energy,
and passes to the sea ice model If mpas-seaice option, config_frazil_coupling_type = “omega-fluxes”.

Fioo_Frazils – total accumulated frazil salt mass per time
Fioo_Frazilh – total accumulated frazil energy per time (defined as positive to be consistent with ‘q’ the sea ice potential)

The new implementation has a requirement that the new frazil salinity be greater than 0.1 ppt.

Works with icepack https://github.com/E3SM-Project/Icepack/tree/njeffery/omega-coupling-frazil in E3SM-Project/Icepack#43

Includes updates from @erinethomas and @karapeterson (https://github.com/erinethomas/E3SM/tree/omega/ice-coupling)

Tested in mpas-ocean and confirmed BFB for default config_frazil_coupling_type = “external”
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karapeterson and others added 10 commits May 28, 2026 14:36
Updates Icepack submodule to frazil coupling branch
Adds ocean-ice coupling fields:
frazil salt flux (Fioo_frazils)
frazil enthalpy flux (Fioo_frazilh) defined consistent with freezingMeltPotential

To use, set config_frazil_coupling_type to ‘omega-fluxes’
Backwards compatible with mpas-ocean for config_frazil_coupling_type = ‘external’

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Sea ice initialize now allows for the config_frazil_coupling_type option:
"omega-fluxes"
Sea ice initialize NOW allows for config_frazil_coupling_type option:
“omega-fluxes”
Removes double counting of frazil energy in coupler budget.
Corrects possible but in temperature tendency of frazil melt.
nBFB
Adds optional formulation in frazil.
Revert to original formulation with comments.
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