A wave-based model for the marginal ice zone including a floe breaking parameterization

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Dumont, D ^a,b   Kohout, A ^c   Bertino, L ^a  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER WAVES; WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION;

CURRENT ESTIMATES; FLEXURAL STRAIN; ICE COVER; ICE FLOES; ICE-OCEAN MODELS; INCIDENT WAVES; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; OCEAN WAVES; OPEN OCEAN; PACK ICE; REASONABLE VALUE; RIGID MATERIAL; SEA ICE MODELS; SHARP TRANSITION; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE SCATTERING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; ICE BREAKUP; ICE COVER; ICE FLOW; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; OPEN OCEAN; PARAMETERIZATION; SEA ICE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE ENERGY; WAVE MODELING; WAVE SCATTERING; WAVE SPECTRUM; WAVE-ICE INTERACTION;

EID: 79953687978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006682     Document Type: Article

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