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Drift, Deformation, and Fracture of Sea Ice

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In this introductory chapter, after a short historical perspective on sea ice drift studies from the pioneering observations of Nansen, we briefly introduce the momentum equation of sea ice as well as some generic definitions, tools and concepts that will be used afterwards in this book to analyze the scaling properties of the sea ice cover.

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Weiss, J. (2013). Introduction. In: Drift, Deformation, and Fracture of Sea Ice. SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6202-2_1

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