Sensitivity study of a dynamic thermodynamic sea ice model

D. M. Holland, L. A. Mysak, D. K. Manak, J. M. Oberhuber

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Abstract

A numerical simulation of the seasonal sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean and the Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian seas is presented. The sea ice model is extracted from Oberhuber's (1990) coupled sea ice-mixed layer-isopycnal general circulation model and is written in spherical coordinates. The advantage of such a model over previous sea ice models is that it can be easily coupled to either global atmospheric or ocean general circulation models written in spherical coordinates. In this model, the thermodynamics are a modification of that of Parkinson and Washington (1979), while the dynamics use the full Hibler (1979) viscous-plastic rheology. The simulation of the seasonal cycle of Arctic sea ice cover is shown to be robust. -from Authors

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2561-2586
Number of pages26
JournalJournal of Geophysical Research
Volume98
Issue numberC2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1993

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

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