In the region where the mean water is deeper or equal to 100 m,
10 same thickness layers in the upper 30 m (with a layer thickness from 2 to 5
m) and 5 same thickness layers in the lower 25 m above the bottom.
Driven by the OMIP-Forcing-the sixth version and the model
starts run at January 1 with the
wintertime fields of water temperature and salinity.
The water temperature and salinity data were from polar science center Hydrographic Climatology (PHC) version 3.0.
The region north of 65oN is covered by the ice
with a thickness of 2.5 m everywhere at initial