A finite element sea ice model of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1539-1558

  Van Scheltinga, Arjen D Terwisscha ^a   Myers, Paul G ^a   Pietrzak, Julie D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arctic Ocean; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Freshwater flux; Ocean modelling; Sea ice; Unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO; FRESHWATER FLUXES; OCEAN MODELLING; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; VELOCITY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ARCTIC OSCILLATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLASTICITY; RESOLUTION; RHEOLOGY; SALINITY; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; LABRADOR SEA;

EID: 83655192871     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-010-0356-5     Document Type: Article

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