Brine fluxes from growing sea ice

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Wells, A J ^a   Wettlaufer, J S ^a,b   Orszag, S A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

BUOYANCY FORCING; CHANNEL SPACINGS; CRITICAL THICKNESS; DRAINAGE PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DERIVATIONS; FIXED TEMPERATURE; FLUID TRANSPORT; LAYER THEORY; SELECTION MECHANISM; THEORETICAL MODELS;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

BRINE; BUOYANCY FORCING; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; ICE THICKNESS; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79952175198     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL046288     Document Type: Article

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