Modeling the dynamics of the North Water polynya ice bridge

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1448-1461

  Dumont, Dany ^a   Gratton, Yves ^a   Arbetter, Todd E ^b  

^a CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^b National Ice Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL CLIMATE MODELING; GRID DISCRETIZATION; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; LONG TERM STABILITY; NARROW CHANNEL; OPTIMAL VALUES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; REMARKABLE IMPACT; SEA ICE MODELS; TIME VARIANT;

OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

RHEOLOGY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COHESION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; ICE THICKNESS; PARAMETERIZATION; POLYNYA; RHEOLOGY; SEA ICE; TESTING METHOD; VISCOPLASTICITY;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; KANE BASIN; NARES STRAIT; SMITH SOUND;

EID: 67949100556     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JPO3965.1     Document Type: Article

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