On the formulation of sea-ice models. Part 2: Lessons from multi-year adjoint sea-ice export sensitivities through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 145-158

  Heimbach, Patick ^a   Menemenlis, Dimitris ^b   Losch, Martin ^c   Campin, Jean Michel ^a   Hill, Chris ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adjoint modeling; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Coupled ocean and sea ice model; Numerical sea ice modeling; Sea ice export; Sensitivities; State estimation; Viscous plastic rheology

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO; NUMERICAL SEA-ICE MODELING; SEA-ICE EXPORT; SENSITIVITIES;

ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; ESTIMATION; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLASTICITY; RHEOLOGY; STATE ESTIMATION; VISCOSITY;

ICE CONTROL;

ADJOINT METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; ICE THICKNESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; LANCASTER SOUND; NUNAVUT;

EID: 77949917535     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.02.002     Document Type: Article

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