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This chapter presents the material structure of sea ice from local scale to large scale. Ice floes form granular drift ice fields, for which continuum approximations are used when the scale of interest is much larger than the floe size. These fields are char- acterized by their ice type, ice compactness, floe size and shape, and ice thickness, as shown in Sections 2.1 and 2.2. Section 2.3 is devoted to thermodynamics of sea ice, which is closely coupled with dynamics and which is a necessary element in sea ice dynamics models.
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Leppäranta, M. (2011). Drift ice material. In: The Drift of Sea Ice. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04683-4_2
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