Advances in understanding ice-ocean stress during and since AIDJEX

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 76-77, Issue , 2012, Pages 24-36

  McPhee, Miles G ^a  

^a McPhee Research Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice ocean drag; Rossby similarity; Turbulent stress; Underice hydraulic roughness

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ICE; BUOYANCY FLUXES; DRAG LAW; DYNAMICAL SIMILARITY; HYDRAULIC ROUGHNESS; ICE TYPE; MOMENTUM EXCHANGE; NEAR-SURFACE; PACK ICE; PARAMETERIZED; ROSSBY SIMILARITY; ROTATIONAL EFFECTS; SURFACE VELOCITY; TURBULENCE SCALE; TURBULENT STRESS; UNDERICE HYDRAULIC ROUGHNESS; UPPER OCEAN; VELOCITY DIFFERENCE;

BUOYANCY; DRAG; HYDRAULIC FLUIDS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ICE;

DRAG; FLOW VELOCITY; HYDRAULICS; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; PARAMETERIZATION; ROSSBY NUMBER; STRATIFICATION; STRESS ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER;

ARCTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84858284095     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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