Including the Arctic Ocean

Typically, in ocean only calculations with the lat-lon grid (left), the Artic ocean is filled to avoid the CFL troubles that arise from the converging meridians. With the cubic grids (right) this is no longer necessary. The above grid is the ECC32-R3 grid yeilding the same number of points along the equator in both grids. The grid cells in the cubic grid are visibly more uniform in resolution than on the lat-lon grid.