diff --git a/ush/parsing_namelists_CICE.sh b/ush/parsing_namelists_CICE.sh
index dc67777af9..08e8fc70f5 100755
--- a/ush/parsing_namelists_CICE.sh
+++ b/ush/parsing_namelists_CICE.sh
@@ -57,7 +57,14 @@ local CICE_NPT=${npt}
 local CICE_RUNTYPE=${runtype}
 local CICE_RUNID="unknown"
 local CICE_USE_RESTART_TIME=${use_restart_time}
-local CICE_RESTART_DIR="./CICE_RESTART/"
+local CICE_RESTART_FORMAT="pnetcdf2"
+local CICE_RESTART_IOTASKS=-99
+local CICE_RESTART_REARR="box"
+local CICE_RESTART_ROOT=-99
+local CICE_RESTART_STRIDE=-99
+local CICE_RESTART_CHUNK=0,0
+local CICE_RESTART_DEFLATE=0
+local CICE_RESTART_DIR="./RESTART/"
 local CICE_RESTART_FILE="cice_model.res"
 local CICE_DUMPFREQ="y"  # "h","d","m" or "y" for restarts at intervals of "hours", "days", "months" or "years"
 local CICE_DUMPFREQ_N=10000  # Set this to a really large value, as cice, mom6 and cmeps restart interval is controlled by ufs.configure
@@ -68,6 +75,14 @@ if [[ "${RUN}" =~ "gdas" ]]; then
 else
   local CICE_HIST_AVG=".true., .true., .true., .true., .true."    # GFS long forecaset wants averaged over CICE_HISTFREQ_N
 fi
+local CICE_HISTORY_FORMAT="pnetcdf2"
+local CICE_HISTORY_IOTASKS=-99
+local CICE_HISTORY_REARR="box"
+local CICE_HISTORY_ROOT=-99
+local CICE_HISTORY_STRIDE=-99
+local CICE_HISTORY_CHUNK=0,0
+local CICE_HISTORY_DEFLATE=0
+local CICE_HISTORY_PREC=4
 local CICE_HISTORY_DIR="./CICE_OUTPUT/"
 local CICE_INCOND_DIR="./CICE_OUTPUT/"
 # grid_nml section