Two modes of sea-ice gravity drainage: A parameterization for large-scale modeling

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2279-2294

  Turner, Adrian K ^a   Hunke, Elizabeth C ^a   Bitz, Cecilia M ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

brine drainage; sea ice

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; SEA ICE; WATER FILTRATION;

CRITICAL POROSITY; FIELD MEASUREMENT; GRAVITY DRAINAGE; JACOBIAN-FREE NEWTON-KRYLOV; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LARGE-SCALE MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; RAYLEIGH NUMBER;

PARAMETERIZATION;

DESALINATION; GRAVITY FLOW; ICE MOVEMENT; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; SEA ICE;

LOS ALAMOS; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880648743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrc.20171     Document Type: Article

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