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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="" color="#073763">Hi Everyone,<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#073763">WAVEWATCH III is now at version 6.06 with the inclusion of the uomic5 branch! A quick list of the updates are:<span></span></font></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 38pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#073763" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt">IC5- as a sea ice source term option for the extended Fox and Squire viscoelastic ice layer model. The fifth method for representing ice-induced wave decay is based on another viscoelastic-type model, i.e., the EFS ice layer model described in Mosig et. al 2015. The new source term introduced viscosity into the thin elastic plate model of Fox and Squire (1994) and restricted it to one horizontal dimension (replacing a plate by a beam).<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 38pt;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#073763" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt">ST6 Update which includes source functions (wind input, whitecapping dissipation, swell dissipation, negative input, physical constraints)<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#073763">Four regtests have been added to the existing /ww3_tic1.1 for IC5<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#073763">More details can be found on the Vlab Issue at <a href="https://vlab.ncep.noaa.gov/redmine/issues/48319">https://vlab.ncep.noaa.gov/redmine/issues/48319</a>.<span></span></font></span></p>

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<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#073763" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span>·<span style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal">       </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt">We also have a couple of bug fixes since ugdev2 branch integration with the master.<span></span></span></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#073763">If you do have problems, please create an issue describing it on Vlab (<a href="https://vlab.ncep.noaa.gov/redmine/projects/emc-ww3/issues/new"><span style="text-decoration:none">https://vlab.ncep.noaa.gov/redmine/projects/emc-ww3/issues/new</span></a>) adding Jessica and me as watchers or send an email (emails: <span style="font-size:12pt;text-decoration:none"><a href="mailto:jessica.meixner@noaa.gov">jessica.meixner@noaa.gov</a></span>, <a href="mailto:ali.abdolali@noaa.gov">ali.abdolali@noaa.gov</a>).<span></span></font></span></p>

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