Thickness sensitivities in the CICE sea ice model

Ocean Modelling

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 137-149

  Hunke, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Antarctic; Arctic; Conductivity; Modeling; Ridging; Sea ice thickness

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL FORCING; HIGHLY SENSITIVE; ICE THICKNESS; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OCEANIC HEAT FLUX; PARAMETER VALUES; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; RIDGED ICE; SEA ICE MODELS; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SPATIAL COVERAGE; THICKNESS SENSITIVITY;

DYNAMICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION; STRESSES; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALBEDO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONDUCTIVITY; HEAT FLUX; ICE THICKNESS; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77954218831     PISSN: 14635003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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