Abstract
The simulation is carried out using the coupled sea ice ocean general circulation model of Oberhuber (1993). The coupled model is forced using monthly climatological atmospheric forcing. The large-scale characteristics of the observed sea ice cover in the NGS are reasonably well reproduced when compared with the limited observations available. Two notable aspects of the simulation are: 1) a trough in the ice compactness across Fram Strait and 2) a polynya along the northeast coast of Greenland. Both of these features are evident in the observations during the spring-summer period. A sensitivity experiment in which the ice internal stress term is removed from the ice model demonstrates that the inclusion of a realistic sea ice rheology is a key factor. -Authors
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 4751-4760 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Geophysical Research |
Volume | 100 |
Issue number | C3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1995 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geophysics
- Forestry
- Oceanography
- Aquatic Science
- Ecology
- Water Science and Technology
- Soil Science
- Geochemistry and Petrology
- Earth-Surface Processes
- Atmospheric Science
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Space and Planetary Science
- Palaeontology