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Study of the Ocean Boundary Layer Convection under Inhomogeneous Ice with the Help of the Large-Eddy Simulation Model

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Upper ocean convection under narrow ice leads is considered and simulated. The effects associated with the localization of the buoyancy source and with the influence of the Coriolis force are discovered. An explanation is proposed for a mechanism that forms a stably salt-stratified isothermal layer during cold seasons at high latitudes. Observational data are qualitatively consistent with the simulation results. The existing parameterizations of under-ice convection in modern climate models are discussed and their possible defects are indicated.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The development of computer technologies was supported by the Moscow Center for Fundamental and Applied Mathematics world-class research center. Analysis and graphic representation of PHC 3.0 and WOA13 hydrologic data are from Schlitzer R. OceanDataView (https://odv.awi.de, 2019).

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This work (the analysis of results and their interpretation) was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 18-05-60184.

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  1. Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333, Moscow, Russia

    A. V. Glazunov & N. G. Iakovlev

  2. Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

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Glazunov, A.V., Iakovlev, N.G. Study of the Ocean Boundary Layer Convection under Inhomogeneous Ice with the Help of the Large-Eddy Simulation Model. Izv. Atmos. Ocean. Phys. 56, 268–278 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S000143382003007X

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