Incorporation of a physically based melt pond scheme into the sea ice component of a climate model

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Flocco, Daniela ^a   Feltham, Daniel L ^a,b   Turner, Adrian K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; LAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLAR RADIATION;

ARCTIC SEA ICE; CLIMATE MODEL; EVOLUTION THEORY; ICE COVER; MELT PONDS; MODEL REPRESENTATION; PHYSICALLY BASED; REFREEZING; SEA ICE EXTENT; SEA ICE MODELS; SEA-ICE COMPONENTS; SEA-ICE THICKNESS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; ICE MASS; ICE SURFACES;

SEA ICE;

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; DECADAL VARIATION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; ICE COVER; ICE THICKNESS; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; MASS BALANCE; MELTWATER; PERMEABILITY; POND; SEA ICE; WATER MASS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; LOS ALAMOS; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955546822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005568     Document Type: Article

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