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The Geophysics of Sea Ice

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Sea ice dynamics deals with the way momentum is transferred through the sea ice system. The essential features of this transfer may be characterized by equations representing the following elements: 1) a momentum balance describing ice drift including air and water stresses, Coriolis force, internal ice stress, inertial forces, and ocean current effects; 2) an ice rheology which relates the ice stress to the ice deformation and strength; and 3) an ice strength determined primarily as a function of the ice thickness distribution. In discussing these components it is implicitly assumed that a description of sea ice as a two-dimensional continuum is possible. Such a continuum description does not, however, rule out using these equations to represent rapidly changing ice conditions as occur, for example, near the ice margin. This can be accomplished by allowing various quantities (e.g., ice mass, ice strength, water stress) to vary rapidly in space. Also, most present-day treatments of ice dynamics employ highly nonlinear rheologies which can, as will be demonstrated later, introduce discontinuities into the ice velocity field, even though the forcing and mass fields may be rather smooth.

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Hibler, W.D. (1986). Ice Dynamics. In: Untersteiner, N. (eds) The Geophysics of Sea Ice. NATO ASI Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5352-0_10

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