Simulating the mass balance and salinity of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice. 1. Model description and validation

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 33-53

  Vancoppenolle, Martin ^a   Fichefet, Thierry ^a   Goosse, Hugues ^a   Bouillon, Sylvain ^a   Madec, Gurvan ^b,c   Maqueda, Miguel Angel Morales ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Antarctic; Arctic; Model; Salinity; Sea ice; Thickness

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SEA ICE; THERMODYNAMICS;

AGE; ANTARCTIC; ARCTIC; MODEL; SALINITY; THICKNESS;

ICE;

ICE THICKNESS; MASS BALANCE; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; SALINITY; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 59249097861     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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