This model owes its originality to the fact that it allows simulating ice floes of shapes derived from observations and collisions between these floes in a way that avoids unrealistic interpenetrations and the associated energy dissipation, which makes it a valuable tool for thermodynamic and eventually dynamic parameterization developments within the WP2 and WP3 of SASIP.

The code and documentation can be found here Trimestrial users and developersmeetings will be held from now on: do not hesitate to send an email to stephane.labbe@sorbonne-universite.fr if you want to join